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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:

Nouns denoting plants

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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