Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - opium
Opium
opium
n. 1 a reddish-brown heavy-scented addictive drug prepared from the juice of the opium poppy, used in medicine as an analgesic and narcotic. 2 anything regarded as soothing or stupefying. Phrases and idioms opium den a haunt of opium-smokers. opium poppy a poppy, Papaver somniferum, native to Europe and E. Asia, with white, red, pink, or purple flowers. Etymology: ME f. L f. Gk opion poppy-juice f. opos juice
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noun Etymology: Middle English, from Latin, from Greek opion, from diminutive of opos sap Date: 14th century a bitter brownish addictive narcotic drug that consists of the dried latex obtained from immature seed capsules of the ~ poppy, something having an effect like that of ~ ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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