cop-rose, copper-rose
[Cf. F. mod. coprose in same sense. Connexion with F. couperose copperas, or copper-nose, has been suggested; Hatzfeld compares Ger. klapperrose.]
A local name of the red Corn Poppy (Papaver Rhœas).
| 1776 Withering Brit. Plants (1796) II. 487 Corn, or Red Poppy. Corn Rose. Cop-rose. Head-wark. 1787 Grose Provinc. Gloss., Cop rose, Papaver rhæas, called also head work. 1847–78 Halliwell, Copper-rose, the red field poppy. 1878–86 Britten & Holland Plant-n., Cop-rose, or Copper-rose. (Northumb., Yorksh., Suffolk.) One Yorkshire correspondent writes it Copperrass. |