opium

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A bitter, yellowish-brown, strongly addictive narcotic drug prepared from the dried latex of unripe pods of the opium poppy and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine.

noun

Something that numbs or stupefies.

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The inspissated juice of Papaver somniferum, a poppy cultivated from early antiquity for the sake of this product. See poppy and Papaver.

noun

The inspissated juice of the Papaver somniferum, or white poppy.

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a low resort of opium smokers.

noun

A yellowbrown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine.

noun

Anything that numbs or stupefies.

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an addictive narcotic extracted from seed capsules of the opium poppy