Papaver

NOUN
  1. type genus of the Papaveraceae; chiefly bristly hairy herbs with usually showy flowers
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How To Use Papaver In A Sentence

  • Heroin, morphine and opium are inspissate juices and narcotic poisons in the genus of poppies, called Papaver. Greeley Tribune - Top Stories
  • Consequently, canonists call the clause the "mother of repose": "sicut papaver gignit somnum et quietem, ita et hæc clausula habenti eam. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
  • A 4-mg solution of papaverine is used to irrigate vessels in the event of vasospasms.
  • Papaver somniferum, and a mutant plant that makes the morphine precursors thebaine and oripavine but can't make morphine itself. Classical Values
  • Another drug commonly given through injections is papaverine, which has the same effect of widening the blood vessels.
  • Sometimes it is morphine or the narcotic principle, that characterises the vegetable milk, as in some papaverous plants; sometimes it is caoutchouc, as in the hevea and the castilloa; sometimes albumen and caseum, as in the cow-tree. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
  • The results show that it is effective to apply discrete stationary wavelet transform on the basis of FTIR to identify the Papaver somniferum L. and Papaver rhoeas.
  • He contributed greatly towards the definition of the arrangement of atoms within molecules of morphine, papaverine, narcotine, etc. Sir Robert Robinson - Biography
  • The dose of papaverine depended on individual sensitivity and the course of disease.
  • Cromer may be the garden of sleep, but you shall find sleepier gardens and more papaverous poppies - Somewhere Else. NYT > Opinion
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