OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 11579

opium

/ˈoʊ.pi.əm/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
anfión • opio
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.
Opium is largely used by the Chinese as a sexual provocation, both by men and women.
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