Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A tall annual dioecious plant (Cannabis sativa), native to central Asia and having alternate, palmately divided leaves and tough bast fibers.
- n. Any of several mildly euphoriant, intoxicating hallucinogenic drugs, such as ganja, hashish, or marijuana, prepared from various parts of this plant.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A genus of urticaceous plants, of a single species, C. Indica. See bhang and hemp.
Wiktionary
- n. A tall annual dioecious plant (Cannabis, especially Cannabis sativa), native to central Asia and having alternate, palmately divided leaves and tough bast fibers.
- n. A mildly euphoriant, intoxicating hallucinogenic drug prepared from various parts of this plant.
WordNet 3.0
- n. 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
- n. the most commonly used illicit drug; considered a soft drug, it consists of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect
Etymologies
- Latin, from Greek kannabis. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“In a separate incident, police uncovered what they described as a cannabis factory at a building on the Carnpark Road in Katesbridge, Co Down.”
“There are no displays of hemp leaves or any other sign that cannabis is for sale, in line with strict advertising rules, though multiple portraits of Bob Marley hint at the core business.”
The Washington Post: Amsterdam's cannabis-selling coffee shops face crackdown
“Coinciding with a tightening of laws regarding prostitution - another tolerated industry - the authorities 'new stance on cannabis is raising questions about whether Dutch society is moving away from laissez-faire traditions, which have included some of the earliest gay-friendly policies in Europe and the provision of free contraception to teenage girls.”
The Washington Post: Amsterdam's cannabis-selling coffee shops face crackdown
“In particular, the absence of legal means for coffee shops to obtain cannabis has highlighted their association with organized crime.”
The Washington Post: Amsterdam's cannabis-selling coffee shops face crackdown
“The Heritage Memorandum repeats the claim that cannabis is a "gateway drug" that can lead users "to more dangerous drugs.”
The Huffington Post: Tim Lynch: Pot Shots at Prop 19 Fall Flat
“Suppose you convinced anti-medical-marijuana people that cannabis is indeed the only effective treatment for many patients, that they would suffer horribly without it, and that legalizing it for those patients would not lead to more illegal use by teenagers.”
“There are two basic breeding lines in cannabis hybridization: the wild species, Cannabis sativa, and a subspecies named indica.”
“The debate moves from whether cannabis is going to be legal to how cannabis is going to be legal," he said.”
“Maybe cannabis is effective for pain or nausea of cancer.”
“But if you're talking about tolerance and dependence and withdrawal and sort of the physical hallmarks of addiction, cannabis is very low on the list.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cannabis’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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rastafari
dem woodz assoseeated wit da reegae mon..
( Reggae, Rastafari, Rasta, Jamaica, Zion, Haile Selassie, Africa, Caribbean )
( slang, randomness )Rastafari, puff, Jah, reggae, Haile Selassie, Jamaica, Kingston, Caribbean, Dominican, Zion, Africa, cannabis and 81 more...
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Yes We Can
can-, -can, or even -can-.
candelabra, parcan, incantation, Canada, candida, Candide, toucan, can-can, cancan, cannabis, incandescent, canticle and 26 more...
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illicit drugs
Different terms for illicit drugs and drug paraphernalia. Please keep chemical names to the minimum, unless they're in common usage.
reefer, spliff, grass, joint, pot, ganja, heroin, cocaine, lsd, cannabis, marijuana, peyote and 20 more...
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the physical experience
wank, snog, tendon, sinew, sauce shelf, pet, arse, astigmatism, bisexual, brassiere, breast, climax and 186 more...
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Rhymeless.
From wikipedia: "The following is a list of English words without rhymes, i.e. a list of words in the English language which rhyme with no other English words in the sense that they are pronounced ...
almond, angry, angst, anxious, aspirin, bachelor, breadth, bulb, bulbous, calumny, cannabis, caveat and 49 more...
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Artists
cage, atmosphere, grieves, passionate, joker, incubus, modest, mouse, bright, eyes, sadistic, necro and 41 more...
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zombiedepot's Words
sardonic, ganja, repute, putsch, loamy, bungle, dupe, astray, disembowel, maim, thou, cannabis and 43 more...
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OrbitalCombustion's Words
nepenthe, phrontistery, peregrination, pervicacious, sinistrality, phallogocentric, prolixity, leptokurtic, ineffable, haecceity, lucubration, vicissitudes and 1026 more...
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Lurhstaap's Words
A collection of my favorite and/or most-used noteworthy words.
thanatoic, paradox, paradigm, quantum, utopiate, oenic, gnosis, vortex, piquerist, theurge, rataplan, synergy and 39 more...
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drugs I have taken
alcohol, caffeine, codeine, ibuprofin, acetaminophen, cannabis, flexeril, zocor, lovastatin, vicodin, aspirin, antibiotics and 2 more...
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Copycatalyst's Words
infinitsmally, stimmyied, cannablissed, copycatalyst, hollowgram, xeroxian, nihilion, scion, exacerbate, stymied, eschew, cauterized and 140 more...
Tweets
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