morphine alkaloid
English
Noun
morphine alkaloid (plural morphine alkaloids)
- (organic chemistry) A group of about twenty closely related compounds obtained from the dried latex that exudes from the seed capsule of the opium poppy Papaver somniferum.
Synonyms
- opium alkaloid
Related terms
- berberine
- codeine
- hydrastine
- morphine
- narceine
- narcotine
- papaverine
- sanguinarine
- thebaine