indian hemp

Noun

• Canadian dogbane yielding a tough fiber used as cordage by Native Americans; used in folk medicine for pain or inflammation in joints

• valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation

• source of e.g. bhang and hashish as well as fiber

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Indian hemp , rheumatism weed , Apocynum cannabinum , kenaf , kanaf , deccan hemp , bimli , bimli hemp , Bombay hemp , Hibiscus cannabinus , Cannabis indica