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 Translation for 'opium poppy' from English to Polish
NOUN   an opium poppy | opium poppies
SYNO opium poppy | Papaver somniferum
med.
mak {m} lekarski
opium poppy [Papaver somniferum]
farm.med.
opium {n}
opium
bot.T
mak {m}
poppy
palarnia {f} opiumopium den
bot.T
mak {m} nagołodygowy [Papaver nudicaule]
Iceland poppy
gastr.
makowiec {m}
poppy seed roll
gastr.
makowiec {m}
poppy-seed cake
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Usage Examples English
  • It was the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy.
  • In February 2005, a poison garden, growing plants such as cannabis and opium poppy, was added.
  • In 2021, the agency reported a further drop in opium poppy cultivation in Burma, as the region’s synthetic drug market continues to expand and diversify.
  • Through aerial spraying of herbicide and manual eradication, Colombia has attempted to keep coca, opium poppy, and cannabis cultivation from expanding.
  • Laudanum is prepared by dissolving extracts from the opium poppy ("Papaver somniferum Linnaeus") in alcohol (ethanol).

  • The opium poppy and corn poppy are symbols, respectively, of sleep and death. In Great Britain, Canada, the United States, and Australia the corn poppy is worn in remembrance of World War I.
  • His government's prohibition of opium poppy harvesting in June 1971 under US pressure fired controversy.
  • It was once a major center of opium poppy production in the country.
  • Opium (or poppy tears, scientific name: "Lachryma papaveris") is dried latex obtained from the seed capsules of the opium poppy "Papaver somniferum".
  • Many of the alkaloids and other derivatives of the opium poppy are not opioids or narcotics; the best example is the smooth-muscle relaxant papaverine.

  • rhoeas" was at the centre of a diplomatic controversy between China and the United Kingdom; during an official visit to China, British Prime Minister David Cameron and his entourage rejected a demand from China to not wear the remembrance poppy, which the Chinese government had mistaken for the opium poppy, a plant that carries connotations of the Opium Wars in China.
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