papaverous /pəˈpævəɹəs/ adjective2 •Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the poppy.Now instead of a smell of Delight our Mandrakes afford a papaverous and unpleasant odor, whether in the leaf or apple, as is discoverable in their simplicity or mixture. — 1650 •(figurative) Inducing sleep; soporific.He reduced the chaos of Smith to some order, and his style is sufficiently classical, but not the less prolix and papaverous on that account. — 1837 formsmore papaverous · most papaverous