How many syllables in poppy?

There are 2 syllables in the word poppy.

How to pronounce poppy:

poppy (noun):: annual or biennial or perennial herbs having showy flowers.; any of a genus (papaver of the family papaveraceae, the poppy family) of chiefly annual or perennial herbs with milky juice, showy regular flowers, and capsular fruits including the opium poppy and several forms cultivated as ornamentals

arctic poppy

blue poppy

bocconia

california poppy

celandine

celandine poppy

chelidonium majus

corn poppy

creamcups

eschscholtzia californica

family papaveraceae

flaming poppy

flanders poppy

flower

golden cup

greater celandine

hunnemania fumariifolia

iceland poppy

macleaya cordata

meconopsis betonicifolia

meconopsis cambrica

mexican tulip poppy

opium poppy

oriental poppy

papaver alpinum

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