Definitions for Cannabis

Cannabis can·na·bis

Spelling: [kan-uh-bis]
IPA: /ˈkæn ə bɪs/

Cannabis is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 177 anagrams from letters in Cannabis (aabcinns).

Definitions for Cannabis

noun

  1. the hemp plant, Cannabis sativa.
  2. the flowering tops of the plant.
  3. any of the various parts of the plant from which hashish, marijuana, bhang, and similar mildly euphorogenic and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.

Origin of Cannabis

1790-1800; New Latin, Latin: hemp Greek kánnabis; cognate with hemp

Examples for Cannabis

Not just cannabis, but psychedelics and other substances, too.

Cann′abin, a resin obtained from the plant cannabis Indica; Cann′abis, a genus of urticaceous plants, yielding bhang.

The research also showed that once the patients stabilized on methadone, there was a decrease in their cannabis use.

Today, the pace of leading-edge research with compounds in the cannabis plant is accelerating.

His first experience had him swearing off “edibles”—food cooked with cannabis—for good.

It is nothing more than an overdose of cannabis or opium upon an excited nervous system, is it?

An intoxicating preparation of the hemp-plant (cannabis sativa or C. indica).

All forms of cannabis have negative physical and mental effects.

In 1611, cannabis was planted in Jamestown, Virginia, by order of the king.

"That is a known, though rarely-obtained, effect of cannabis indica," observed the doctor.

Word Value for Cannabis
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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