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Opium vs Narcotine - What's the difference?

opium | narcotine |

As nouns the difference between opium and narcotine

is that opium is opium while narcotine is an alkaloid found in opium; noscapine.

opium

English

(wikipedia opium)

Noun

  • (uncountable) A yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum , and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine.
  • (countable) Anything that numbs or stupefies.
  • * "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, . . . It is the opium of the people." -

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    narcotine

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • An alkaloid found in opium; noscapine
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