Definizione monolingua

opium

opium (countable and uncountable; plural opiums or opia)

1. (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. (countable) Anything that numbs or stupefies.
   • ""Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, . . . It is the opium of the people."" - w:Karl Marx

Definizione dizionario opium

	oppio
	drug from opium poppy
	A yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy.

Altri significati:

(countable) Anything that numbs or stupefies.

(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.

anything that numbs or stupefies