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1) Narcotic
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An addictive drug of the morphine family, harvested from certain types of poppy. It was banned in China until the British forced its legalisation and widespread cultivation in the 1860s. By the late 1800s approximately one quarter of Chinese males were opium users.
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addictive narcotic drug made from the dried juice of the opium poppy. John Jasper was an opium addict in The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
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Opium (poppy tears, lachryma papaveris) is the dried latex obtained from the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum). Opium contains approximately 12% of the analgesic alkaloid morphine, which is processed chemically to produce heroin and other synthetic opioids for medicinal use and for the illegal drug trade. The latex also contains the closely related...
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[Serebro song] Опиум (Opioom (or Opium in English)) is the third released single by Russian girl band Serebro. Given to its order of release, the song is nicknamed `Song #3` after its predecessors `Song #1` and `Song #2` (Дыши). This is the fourth song to be made public from Serebro`s upcoming album after `What`s Your Problem?` was...
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[perfume] Opium is an Oriental-spicy perfume created for fashion brand Yves Saint Laurent (YSL) by perfumer Jean Amic and Jean-Louis Sieuzac of Roure, first marketed in 1977. Its top notes are a mixture of fruit and spices, with mandarin orange, plum, clove, coriander and pepper, as well as bay leaf. Its floral middle notes consist predomin...
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• (n.) The inspissated juice of the Papaver somniferum, or white poppy.
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narcotic drug that is obtained from the unripe seedpods of the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum), a plant of the family Papaveraceae. (See poppy.) ... [26 related articles]
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<chemistry> The inspissated juice of the Papaver somniferum, or white poppy. ... Opium is obtained from incisions made in the capsules of the plant, and the best flows from the first incision. It is imported into Europe and America chiefly from the Levant, and large quantities are sent to China from India, Persia, and other countries. It is o...
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(o´pe-әm) the air-dried milky exudation from unripe capsules of Papaver somniferum and P.album (the opium poppies). It contains some 25 alkaloids, the most important being codeine, morphine (from which heroin is derived), noscapine, papaverine, and thebaine, all of which can be used for their narcotic and analgesic effe...
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O'pi·um noun [ Latin , from Greek ... poppy juice, dim. of ... vegetable juice.]
(Chemistry) The inspissated juice of the
Papaver somniferum , or white poppy. » Opium is obtained from incisions made in the capsules of the plant, and the best flows from the first incision. It is impor...
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Type: Term Pronunciation: ō′pē-ŭm Definitions: 1. The air-dried milky exudation obtained by incising the unripe capsules of Papaver somniferum (family Papaveraceae) or the variant, P. album. Contains some 20 alkaloids, including morphine, noscapine, codeine, papaverine, and thebaine, about 10% all in varying amounts. Used as an...
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Opium: An addictive narcotic drug derived from the unripe seedpods of the opium poppy. Preparations of opium were called laudanum. Derivatives of laudanum include paregoric (a drug to treat diarrhea), morphine and heroin. For centuries, opium was used as a painkiller in the Middle and Far East. It gained great popularity in Europe and the European ...
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Opium is the dried, milky juice (latex) of unripe capsules of the white poppy also known as the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum), a plant probably indigenous in the south of Europe and western Asia, but now so widely cultivated that its original habitat is uncertain.
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n] - an addictive narcotic extracted from seed capsules of the opium poppy
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Addictive narcotic drug extracted from the seed capsules of the opium poppy.
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noun an addictive narcotic extracted from seed capsules of the opium poppy
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Drug extracted from the unripe seeds of the opium poppy (
Papaver somniferum) of southwestern Asia. An addictive narcotic, it contains several alkaloids, including morphine, one of the most powerful natural painkillers and addictive narcotics known, and codeine, a milder painkiller, which are referred to as opiates. Heroin is a sy...
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the dried, condensed juice of a poppy, Papaver somniferum, that has a narcotic, soporific, analgesic, and astringent effect and contains morphine, codeine, papaverine, and other alkaloids used in medicine in their isolated or derived forms: a narcotic substance, poisonous in large doses. · anything that causes dullness or inaction or that s...
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