A plant that resembles hemp or grows alongside hemp plants, though it is not actually hemp.
Compound of 'hemp' and 'weed,' where 'weed' originally meant any wild or undesired plant. The term reflects how different plants were grouped by appearance or habitat rather than botanical classification.
The term 'hempweed' shows how pre-scientific botanists grouped plants by looks rather than genetics—what we'd call a folk taxonomy that was actually pretty practical for farming even if scientifically imprecise.
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