Poppy seed
1.01 mm (0.03976 in)
Seed length
A kidney-shaped seed from the opium poppy, the kind on bagels. About 1 mm long.
Published
How big is that?
1.01 mm is 14 times the width of a human hair and 14% of a grain of rice.
Poppy seed is the 16th largest of the 32 Tiny Worlds objects, and the 17th smallest of the 172 objects across all five SizeItUp games.
Closest in size from the other games: Black peppercorn (Kitchen Table), 4.865 mm across.
Size comparison
To scale, smallest to largest: Poppy seed in orange beside the Tiny Worlds objects nearest in size, in teal.
| Object | Size | vs Poppy seed |
|---|---|---|
| Amoeba (Amoeba proteus)A single cell that moves by pushing out pseudopods; big enough to see by eye. | 0.5 mm long | 50% of the size |
| Nematode worm (C. elegans)Caenorhabditis elegans, the tiny worm behind several Nobel prizes. | 1 mm long | about the same |
| Poppy seed | 1.01 mm long | – |
| Deer tick (Nymph)A young blacklegged tick, the stage most likely to pass on Lyme disease. | 1.5 mm long | 1.5× bigger |
| Green peach aphid (Wingless adult)A sap-sucking garden pest, seen from the side with its two tail pipes. | 1.85 mm long | 1.8× bigger |
In other units
| Millimetres | 1.01 |
|---|---|
| Centimetres | 0.101 |
| Metres | 0.00101 |
| Inches | 0.03976 |
How it's measured
Seed length. Mean of 100 seeds (Plants 2023).
Sources
- europepmc.org: Plants 12:2105: seed length, n = 100, 0.9-1.2 mm, mean 1.01 mm.
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Could you have guessed it by eye?
Poppy seed is one of the objects in Tiny Worlds, a daily size comparison game: you stretch a shape to the size you think is right beside one you know.