opium
nounA 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.
Something that numbs or stupefies.
The inspissated juice of Papaver somniferum, a poppy cultivated from early antiquity for the sake of this product. See poppy and Papaver.
The inspissated juice of the Papaver somniferum, or white poppy.
A low resort of opium smokers.
