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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A purified resin prepared from the flowering tops of the female cannabis plant and smoked or chewed as a narcotic or an intoxicant.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The tops and tender parts of Indian hemp (Cannabis sativa, var. Indica), called in India, ganjah (which see), together with a resinous exudation upon them, gathered after flowering. See hemp, and Indian hemp (under hemp).
  2. n. An intoxicating preparation of this plant, which is either smoked or drunk as an infusion: called in India bhang (which see).

Wiktionary

  1. n. The leaves and tender parts of the Indian hemp plant (which are intoxicating), which are dried for either chewing or smoking.
  2. n. marijuana generally.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen

Etymologies

  1. Arabic ḥašīš, hemp, dried grass, from ḥašša, to mow; see ḥśś in Semitic roots.

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