HEMP FAMILY
Dictionary entry overview: What does hemp family mean?
• HEMP FAMILY (noun)
The noun HEMP FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: HEMP FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• HEMP FAMILY (noun)
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Cannabidaceae; family Cannabidaceae; hemp family
Hypernyms ("hemp family" is a kind of...):
dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "hemp family"):
genus Cannabis (hemp: genus of coarse annuals native to central Asia and widely naturalized in north temperate regions; in some classifications included in the family Moraceae)
genus Humulus; Humulus (hops: hardy perennial vines of Europe, North America and central and eastern Asia producing a latex sap; in some classifications included in the family Urticaceae)
Holonyms ("hemp family" is a member of...):
order Urticales; Urticales (an order of dicotyledonous plants including Moraceae and Urticaceae and Ulmaceae)
