opium
noun
- a yellow to dark brown, addicting, narcotic drug prepared from the juice of the unripe seed capsules of the opium poppy: it contains such alkaloids as morphine, codeine, and papaverine, and is used as an intoxicant and medicinally to relieve pain and produce sleep
- anything that has a tranquilizing or stupefying effect
See opium in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(ōˈpē-əm)
noun- A bitter, yellowish-brown, strongly addictive narcotic drug prepared from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine.
- Something that numbs or stupefies.
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