Noun: hemp
Sample Sentences
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Among Turks, pills consisting of hemp buds, muscat nuts, saffron, and honey were a popular aphrodisiac. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 113:]
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A hundred and fifty years ago, Cotton Mather bewails the carnal attractions of the tavern and the training field, and tells of an old Indian, who imperfectly understood the English tongue but desperately mastered enough of it to express a desire for instant hemp rather than listen to any more ghostly consolations. [1864, James Russell Lowell, Fireside Travels:]
Nouns inflected like hemp
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *hanapiz
3. Proto-West Germanic *hanapi
4. Old English henep
5. Middle English hemp
6. English hemp
7. Inherited from Middle English hemp, from Old English henep, from Proto-West Germanic *hanapi, from Proto-Germanic *hanapiz. Doublet of cannabis and canvas.
Verbs referencing "hemp"
German Nouns
Hanf, Dutch Nouns
hennep, Ancient Greek Nouns
κάνναβις.