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- noun southwestern Asian herb with greyish leaves and white or reddish flowers; source of opium
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The opium poppy, a type of poppy from which all refined opiates such as morphine, thebaine, codeine, papaverine, and noscapine are extracted. The binomial name means, loosely, the "sleep-bringing poppy", referring to its narcotic properties.
May 14, 2008