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Definition of Mawseed
1. n. The seed of the opium poppy.
Definition of Mawseed
1. Noun. The seed of the opium poppy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mawseed
1. poppy seed [n -S]
Medical Definition of Mawseed
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Mawseed
Literary usage of Mawseed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by New York Zoological Society, Tennyson Society (1897)
"Rice, Oil-cake, mawseed, Buckwheat, Ground Nuts, Barley Meal, Oatmeal, Milk,
Goats, Flounders, Whiting, Shrimps, Fowl-heads, ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"... and Asia for its capsules, from which the drug opium, and poppy-oil are derived.
Native of the Mediterranean region. Summer. mawseed. Joan silver-pin. ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1838)
"The seeds of the purple Papaver are known by the name of mawseed, which indicates
the proper English appellation of that plant ; and this agrees with its ..."
4. A History of the Earth, and Animated Natureby Oliver Goldsmith, Washington Irving by Oliver Goldsmith, Washington Irving (1854)
"... and thon it may be mixed with a little mawseed ; after which blend all together,
which is to be supplied them fresh every day. CHAP. ..."
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