opium

opium
noun
  1. [mass noun]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
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German
  1. something regarded as inducing a false and unrealistic sense of contentment among people
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语源
  1. late Middle English: via Latin from Greek opion 'poppy juice', from opos 'juice', from an Indo-European root meaning 'water'
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