GENUS CANNABIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Cannabis mean? 

• GENUS CANNABIS (noun)
  The noun GENUS CANNABIS has 1 sense:

1. hemp: genus of coarse annuals native to central Asia and widely naturalized in north temperate regions; in some classifications included in the family Moraceae

  Familiarity information: GENUS CANNABIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CANNABIS (noun)

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Meaning:

Hemp: genus of coarse annuals native to central Asia and widely naturalized in north temperate regions; in some classifications included in the family Moraceae

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Cannabis" is a kind of...):

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "genus Cannabis"):

cannabis; hemp (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)

Holonyms ("genus Cannabis" is a member of...):

Cannabidaceae; family Cannabidaceae; hemp family (two genera of erect or twining herbs that are pollinated by the wind, including the genera Cannabis and Humulus; term not used in all classifications; in some the genus Cannabis is placed in the family Moraceae and the genus Humulus in the family Urticaceae)