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1. A plant fibre
    
2. 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
   - cannabis, dagga [S.Africa]
    
3. A rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging
   - hangman's rope, hangman's halter, halter, hempen necktie

Derived forms: hemps

Type of: bush, plant fiber [US], plant fibre [Brit, Cdn], rope, shrub

Part of: canvas, canvass, gallows, genus Cannabis, rope

Encyclopedia: Hemp