noun

hemp

HEMP/hemp/

Cannabis cultivated chiefly for useful fiber and seeds.

Tall hemp plants grow beside harvested stalks, cord, and seeds.

A small cultivated stand of tall hemp plants, with recognizable narrow, serrated palmate leaves, beside harvested stalks whose ends reveal long bast fibers, a short coil of coarse fiber cord, and a small pile of seeds.

Etymology

Old English hænep already named the cannabis plant; the meaning later extended to its fiber. Hemp may also share a distant source with cannabis, though that relationship is uncertain.

In context

Medicinal Genomics7:57

we took up a batch of cannabis and this is hemp okay so cannabis sativa the chemotype is cbd right

Extraction of Cannabinoids in Differing Extraction Techniques - Kevin Spelman, PhD, MCPP

More examples

Farmers grow hemp for its strong fiber and nutritious seeds.
This rope is made from hemp.
She sprinkles hemp seeds over her oatmeal.

Forms

hemp

hempen adjective — Made from the fiber of hemp.

Similar words

cannabis: Names the broader plant group, including varieties grown for intoxication.