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What does opium mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) A yellow-brown, 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.
  2. (countable) Anything that numbs or stupefies.
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For a lay person, inhaled medicines are often linked to smoking or opium inhalation and is, therefore, perceived as addictive.
Rather spookily, an agave and some opium poppies had survived last winter almost unscathed.
The resinous juices from the seed casing of the opium poppy are the source of naturally occurring narcotics.
Important are the accounts of opium, aconite, hemlock, and the thorn apple, showing careful study of widely known poisons.
In the Book of Venoms, he listed arsenic, aconite, hellebore, laurel, opium, bryony, mandrake, leopard's gall, and menstrual blood.
Collins suffered from severe attacks of a rheumatic illness which caused him great pain, only relieved by the use of opium.

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