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Word: Opium
Speech Type: Noun
late Middle English: via Latin from Greek opion ‘poppy juice’, from opos ‘juice’, from an Indo-European root meaning ‘water’
ˈəʊpɪəm
a reddish-brown heavy-scented addictive drug prepared from the juice of the opium poppy, used illicitly as a narcotic and occasionally in medicine as an analgesic
Short Definition:reddish-brown heavy-scented addictive drug prepared from juice of opium poppy, used illicitly as narcotic
Examples:- he was addicted to opium
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