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INDIAN HEMP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Canadian dogbane yielding a tough fiber used as cordage by Native Americans; used in folk medicine for pain or inflammation in joints
Synonyms:
Apocynum cannabinum; Indian hemp; rheumatism weed
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Indian hemp" is a kind of...):
dogbane (any of several poisonous perennial plants of the genus Apocynum having acrid milky juice and bell-shaped white or pink flowers and a very bitter root)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation
Synonyms:
bimli; bimli hemp; Bombay hemp; deccan hemp; Hibiscus cannabinus; Indian hemp; kanaf; kenaf
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("Indian hemp" is a kind of...):
hibiscus (any plant of the genus Hibiscus)
Meronyms (parts of "Indian hemp"):
deccan hemp; kenaf (fiber from an East Indian plant Hibiscus cannabinus)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Source of e.g. bhang and hashish as well as fiber
Synonyms:
Cannabis indica; Indian hemp
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("Indian hemp" is a kind of...):
cannabis; hemp (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)
Meronyms (parts of "Indian hemp"):
bhang (a preparation of the leaves and flowers of the hemp plant; much used in India)
haschisch; hash; hasheesh; hashish (purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen)
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