Hyphenation of opium

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word opium? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

opi-um

Definitions of opium:

1.	An addictive narcotic extracted from seed capsules of the opium poppy

Synonyms of opium:

noun	narcotic, controlled substance

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