The seed of the hemp plant, often used as food for birds or extracted for its nutritious oil.
From Middle English, combining 'hemp' (the plant, from Old English henep) with 'seed' (from Old English sæd). The compound reflects the practical use of hemp seeds as animal feed since medieval times.
Hemp seeds are nutritionally packed with complete proteins and are now trendy in health food stores, but farmers have been feeding them to chickens and songbirds for over a thousand years—it's just ancient wisdom rebranded as superfood.
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