| 1798, "common [[hemp]]," from ''Cannabis'', Modern Latin plant genus named (1728), from [[Greek]] ''kannabis'' "hemp," a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythians Scythian] or Thracian word. Also source of Armenian ''kanap''', Albanian ''kanep'', Russian ''konoplja'', Persian ''kanab'', Lithuanian ''kanapes'' "hemp," and [[English]] canvas and possibly hemp. In reference to use of the plant parts as an intoxicant, from 1848. | | 1798, "common [[hemp]]," from ''Cannabis'', Modern Latin plant genus named (1728), from [[Greek]] ''kannabis'' "hemp," a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythians Scythian] or Thracian word. Also source of Armenian ''kanap''', Albanian ''kanep'', Russian ''konoplja'', Persian ''kanab'', Lithuanian ''kanapes'' "hemp," and [[English]] canvas and possibly hemp. In reference to use of the plant parts as an intoxicant, from 1848. |
| *1.a: capitalized : a genus of annual [[herbs]] (family Moraceae) that have leaves with three to seven elongate leaflets and pistillate flowers in spikes along the leafy erect stems and that include the [[hemp]] (C. sativa)b: | | *1.a: capitalized : a genus of annual [[herbs]] (family Moraceae) that have leaves with three to seven elongate leaflets and pistillate flowers in spikes along the leafy erect stems and that include the [[hemp]] (C. sativa)b: |