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Meanings of opium poppy in English
Portuguese
papoila dormideira Spanish
opio Southwestern Asian herb with greyish leaves and white or reddish flowers; source of opium.
Usage of opium poppy in English
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Opioids are a class of drugs naturally found in the opium poppy.
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Morphine is an alkaloid from the opium poppy used to treat pain.
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The region is home to sprawling marijuana and opium poppy plantations.
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Experienced gardeners have no trouble distinguishing the opium poppy from its non-narcotic cousins.
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Tea and opium poppy plantations cover many of the surrounding hillsides.
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The opium poppy in particular would have a soothing effect.
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Marjah has since become a breeding ground for both opium poppy cultivation and insurgents.
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The mountains are dotted with marijuana and opium poppy fields.
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Afghanistan is the world's number one producer of opium poppy, the key ingredient for heroin.
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Afghanistan produces nearly all of the world's crop of opium poppy, used to make heroin.
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Afghanistan produces more than 90 percent of the world's heroin from its opium poppy crops.
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The opium poppy and ergot, a lysergic-acid producing fungus.
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Many locals had resorted to farming the opium poppy in the years following the Arab Spring.
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By far Afghanistan's most violent province, it produces the bulk of the world's opium poppy crop.
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However, he said more efforts were needed to develop economic alternatives to the opium poppy in Afghanistan.
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The opium poppy is extensively grown in India, and every year large quantities were exported to China.