opium
/ˈoʊ.pi.əm/ noun B2- 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.
- Anything that numbs or stupefies.
Plural opiums
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Well up in belladonna, opium, and poisons generally.
With opium, belladonna, brucea, snake-wood, and the cherry-laurel, they put to sleep all who stand in their way.
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