NOUN
- southwestern Asian herb with greyish leaves and white or reddish flowers; source of opium
How To Use opium poppy In A Sentence
- Home grown herbs would have included coriander, dill, thyme, opium poppy and summer savoury.
- Home grown herbs would have included coriander, dill, thyme, opium poppy and summer savoury.
- Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) is the source for the natural and semisynthetic narcotics. Notes and Definitions
- The opium poppy is also larger. Times, Sunday Times
- Home grown herbs would have included coriander, dill, thyme, opium poppy and summer savoury.
- Opium is the brown, gummy exudate of the incised, unripe seedpod of the opium poppy. Notes and Definitions
- The government maintains strict controls over areas of opium poppy cultivation and output of poppy straw concentrate; major consumer of cocaine and amphetamines.
- The opium poppy is also larger. Times, Sunday Times
- And by understanding how the opium poppy produces these compounds, scientists may be able to manipulate the production of opiates by genetically engineering plants or manufacturing them in a lab.
- Other plants, such as foxglove or the opium poppy, can have strong effects in humans if the whole plant is eaten, or a simple tea is prepared from them. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]