Definition of Cannabis sativa

1. Noun. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.

Exact synonyms: Ganja, Marihuana, Marijuana
Terms within: Acapulco Gold, Mexican Green
Generic synonyms: Cannabis, Hemp

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cannabis Sativa

Canis Major
Canis Minor
Canis aureus
Canis dingo
Canis familiaris
Canis latrans
Canis lupus
Canis lupus tundrarum
Canis niger
Canis rufus
Canna edulis
Canna generalis
Canna indica
Cannabidaceae
Cannabis indica
Cannabis sativa (current term)
Cannaceae
Cannae
Cannaregio
Cannes
Cannizzaro
Cannizzaro's reaction
Cannon
Cannon's point
Cannon's ring
Cannon's theory
Cannon-Bard theory
Canola
Canopus
Cant.

Literary usage of Cannabis sativa

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"(2) Cannabis sativa, when grown in various localities of the United States and Mexico, is found to be fully as active as the best imported Cannabis sativa, ..."

2. The British Journal of Homoeopathy edited by John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell (1851)
"Hahnemann briefly remarks of Cannabis sativa that " it may be used with great success in ... The moral symptoms of Cannabis sativa are few in number, ..."

3. Leaders in Homœopathic Therapeutics by Eugene Beauharnais Nash (1899)
"Cannabis sativa Is another remedy having a strong action on the urinary ... After Cannabis sativa, Mercurius corrosivus, if the discharge is thick and green ..."

4. A Manual of pharmacodynamics by Richard Hughes (1899)
"CALENDULA, CAMPHOR, Cannabis sativa AND INDICA, CANTHARIS. I begin to-day with the common garden marigold— Calendula. This plant owes its place in the ..."

5. Keynotes and characteristics with comparisons of some of the leading by Henry Clay Allen (1898)
"Cannabis sativa. Sensation as of drops of water falling on or from single parts; on the head, from the anus, stomach, heart. Obstinate constipation, causing ..."

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