inspissate

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Heroin, morphine and opium are inspissate juices and narcotic poisons in the genus of poppies, called Papaver.

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  1. intransitive and transitive verb To undergo thickening or cause to thicken, as by boiling or evaporation; condense.

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  1. From Late Latin īnspissāre, īnspissāt-, to thicken : Latin in-, causative pref.; see in-2 + Latin spissus, thick.

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  1. from Late Latin inspissatus, past participle of *inspissare, thicken, from Latin in, in, + spissare, thicken: see spissate.
  2. from Late Latin inspissatus, thickened: see the verb.
 

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