opium

  1. Noun.  (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. Noun.  (countable) Anything that numbs or stupefies.

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