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Words related to opium

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  • laudanum

    a tincture of opium.

  • opiate

    a drug containing opium or its derivatives, used in medicine for inducing sleep and relieving pain.

  • opiumism

    the addictive use of opium as a stimulant or intoxicant.

  • meconium

    the first fecal excretion of a newborn child, composed chiefly of bile, mucus, and epithelial cells.

  • opium poppy

    a Eurasian poppy, Papaver somniferum, having white, pink, red, or purple flowers, cultivated as the source of opium, for its oily seeds, and as an ornamental.

  • opium war

    a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
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