Opium: alternatives and connections

The inspissated juice of several species of acacia; -- called also gum acacia, and gum arabic.

Nourishing matter stored up within the integuments of the seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury pa…

The inspissated juice of several species of aloe, used as a purgative.

The fetid gum resin or inspissated juice of a large umbelliferous plant (Ferula asafoetida) of Persia and the East Indies. It is used…

Consisting of the ripened pericarp with no other parts adnate to it, as a peach, a poppy capsule, or a grape.

Dropping off or disappearing early, as the calyx of a poppy, or the gills of a tadpole.

a dry fruit or pod which is made up of several parts or carpels, and opens to discharge the seeds, as, the capsule of the poppy, the f…

A perennial herbaceous plant (Chelidonium majus) of the poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in jaundice, etc.,…

The red, or corn, poppy.

The wild poppy, or red corn rose.

Red poppy. See Cop-rose.

A genus of papaveraceous plants, found in California and upon the west coast of North America, some species of which produce beautiful…

The inspissated juice of a plant (Uncaria Gambir) growing in Malacca. It is a powerful astringent, and, under the name of Terra Japoni…

Of or pertaining to the Glaucium or horned poppy; -- formerly applied to an acid derived from it, now known to be fumaric acid.

The inspissated juice of a tree of the genus Artocarpus (A. incisa, or breadfruit tree), sometimes used in making birdlime, on account…

An astringent inspissated juice obtained from the fruit of a plant (Cytinus hypocistis), growing from the roots of the Cistus, a small…

Made thick or thicker; thickened; inspissated.

Thick or thickened; inspissated.