laudanum
Meaning of laudanum
noun
an alcoholic solution containing morphine, prepared from opium and formerly used as a narcotic painkiller.
mid 16th century (applied to various preparations containing opium): modern Latin, the name given by Paracelsus to a costly medicament of which opium was believed to be the active ingredient; perhaps a variant of Latin ladanum (see ladanum).
Information about laudanum
- It is a name.
- The plural form of laudanum is: laudanums.
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Hyphenation of laudanum
lau-danum
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- laudanum is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Words that rhyme with laudanum
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