1. A 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. 2. Something that numbs or stupefies. [Middle English, from Latin, from Greek opion, diminutive of...
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The opium poppy—papaver somniferum—was first discovered sometime in the Neolithic Age, growing wild in the mountains bordering the eastern Mediterranean. Ancient medical chronicles show that raw opium, scraped off the pods of the poppies, was highly regarded by early physicians hundreds of years ...
1. A 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. 2. Something that numbs or stupefies. [Middle English, from Latin, from Greek opion, diminutive of...