Hemp Definition

hĕmp
noun
Cannabis.
American Heritage
A tall Asian herb (Cannabis sativa) of the hemp family, grown for the tough fiber in its stem.
Webster's New World
The fiber, used to make rope, sailcloth, etc.
Webster's New World
A substance, such as marijuana, hashish, etc., made from the leaves and flowers of this plant.
Webster's New World
Any of various plants yielding a hemplike fiber, as the sisal or Manila hemp.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
adjective
Designating a family (Cannabaceae, order Urticales) of dicotyledonous plants, including hops.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Hemp

Noun

Singular:
hemp
Plural:
hemps

Origin of Hemp

  • From Middle English, from Old English hænep, from Proto-Germanic *hanapiz (compare Dutch hennep, German Hanf, Danish hamp), borrowed from Scytho-Sarmatian (compare Ossetian гӕн(ӕ) (gæn(æ)) ‘flax’, Khotanese kaṃhā ‘hemp’). See cannabis.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old English hænep

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Hemp Sentence Examples

  • Its chief exports are of cotton, hemp, sugar and stone.

  • The chief agricultural products are timber, fruit, grain, hemp, flax and vegetables.

  • Flax and hemp showed a decreasing acreage from 1881 onwards.

  • Tile chief textile plants are hemp, flax and cotton.

  • Though the fondness of this species for the seeds of flax (Linum) and hemp (Cannabis) has given it its common name in so many European languages,' it feeds largely, if not chiefly in Britain on the seeds of plants of the order Compositae, especially those growing on heaths and commons.

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Words Starting With

HHEHEM

Words Ending With

PMPEMP

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hemp

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