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hemp

/hɛmp/ noun

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In Latin: cannabis Wiktionary

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about hemp at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

  1. A plant fiber.
  2. Any plant of the genus Cannabis; a coarse bushy annual with palmate leaves and clusters of small green flowers; yields tough fibers and narcotic drugs.
  3. A rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging.

Origin

Inherited from Middle English hemp, from Old English henep, from Proto-West Germanic *hanapi, from Proto-Germanic *hanapiz. Doublet of cannabis and canvas.

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