diacodium

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English

Etymology

Latin, from Ancient Greek meaning "from poppy heads".

Noun

diacodium (countable and uncountable, plural diacodiums)

  1. (medicine, dated) A syrup made from poppies.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for diacodium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)