Usually means: Pain-relieving narcotic from poppy plant.
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  1. opium: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. opium: Merriam-Webster
  3. opium: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. opium: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. opium: Collins English Dictionary
  6. opium: Vocabulary.com
  7. Opium, opium: Wordnik
  8. opium: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. opium: Wiktionary
  10. opium: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. opium: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. opium: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. opium: Dictionary.com
  14. opium: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. opium: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Opium (Jay-Jay Johanson album), Opium (KMFDM album), Opium (Matt Berry album), Opium (Moonspell song), Opium (Serebro song), Opium (disambiguation), Opium (perfume), Opium: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Opium: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. opium: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. opium: Rhymezone
  20. Opium (nt), opium, opium (de), opium (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. opium: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. opium: FreeDictionary.org
  23. opium: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. opium: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

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  1. opium: Encyclopedia
  2. Opium: The Difference

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. opium: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Opium: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  7. opium: Medical dictionary
  8. Opium: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. OPIUM: Acronym Finder

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (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.
noun:  (by extension, countable) Anything that numbs or stupefies.

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