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☆ Indian hemp

  1. a perennial American plant (Apocynum cannabium) of the dogbane family, with a medicinal root and a tough bark once used in rope making by the Indians
  2. hemp (sense )

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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