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   opium

   /ˈəʊpɪəm/

   noun

   • 1. 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: "he was addicted to opium"

   Word Origin late Middle English: via Latin from Greek opion ‘poppy juice’, from opos ‘juice’, from an Indo-European root meaning ‘water’.

   Scrabble Points: 9

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