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Acetaten.
A plastic made from cellulose rather than petroleum, historically produced from wood and cotton and equally producible from hemp.
Materials & ManufacturingAcren.
A unit of land equal to 43,560 square feet, or about 0.405 hectares. Still the default unit for US hemp acreage reporting.
Cultivation & HarvestAnnualadj.
A plant that completes its whole life cycle, seed to seed, inside a single growing season. Hemp is an annual, which is why it can be worked into a rotation without tying up ground for years.
Botany & GeneticsBalen.
A large bundle of material compressed and bound for handling and transport. Hemp is baled round or square, and bale density drives freight economics more than most new growers expect.
Cultivation & HarvestBastn.
The long, strong fibers running lengthwise through the outer layer of the hemp stalk. This is the high-value fiber used for textiles, rope, and reinforcement.
Also: bast fiberFiber & ProcessingBiennialadj.
A plant that needs two growing seasons to finish its life cycle, putting on vegetative growth the first year and flowering and setting seed the second.
Botany & GeneticsBindern.
A substance that holds other materials together, such as the lime binder in hempcrete or the resin in a fiber composite. Also the machine that ties cut stalks into bundles.
Materials & ManufacturingBiodegradableadj.
Able to be broken down by fungi, bacteria, and other organisms back into natural components. Hemp fiber products break down; the synthetics they replace generally do not.
Sustainability & EnvironmentBiodiversityn.
The range of species and genetic variation present in an ecosystem or region. Rotating hemp into monoculture ground is one practical way to raise it.
Sustainability & EnvironmentBiofueln.
Fuel produced from plant matter rather than fossil deposits. Hemp can feed both biodiesel from seed oil and ethanol from stalk cellulose.
Materials & ManufacturingBiomassn.
Total organic plant material available as a raw input. In hemp trade the word is also used loosely to mean harvested flower material headed for extraction.
Materials & ManufacturingBiomass (Market)n.
In cannabinoid trade, harvested and dried flower material sold by the pound for extraction. Priced on cannabinoid percentage rather than weight alone.
Market & ComplianceBioplasticn.
Plastic derived from plant matter rather than petroleum. Hemp cellulose is a viable feedstock, though most commercial bioplastic today is corn-based.
Materials & ManufacturingBioregionalismn.
Organizing economic life around the natural boundaries and resources of a region. In hemp it argues for processing near where the crop is grown, since baled stalk is expensive to freight.
Sustainability & EnvironmentBioresourcen.
A natural resource that is renewable and biodegradable, as opposed to an extracted finite one.
Materials & ManufacturingBleachv.
To whiten fabric or pulp chemically. Tree pulp typically needs chlorine compounds; hemp pulp can be brought to white with hydrogen peroxide alone.
Materials & ManufacturingBraken.
A hinged hand tool used to crush retted hemp stalks so the woody core fractures away from the fiber.
Fiber & ProcessingBreakv.
To crush retted stalks so the hurd snaps free of the bast fiber. The first mechanical step after retting.
Fiber & ProcessingBreedv.
To cross selected plants deliberately so that a desired trait is strengthened or locked in across generations.
Botany & GeneticsBroad Spectrumadj.
An extract that keeps the wider cannabinoid and terpene profile but has had THC stripped out.
Market & ComplianceBroadcastv.
To scatter seed loosely across a field rather than placing it in drilled rows. Faster to do, but gives less even emergence and a weaker stand.
Cultivation & HarvestBusheln.
A dry volume measure of about 8 gallons, used in grain trade. Hempseed runs roughly 44 pounds to the bushel, though buyers increasingly price by weight.
Cultivation & HarvestCalyxn.
The small pod-like structure at the base of a flower that wraps and protects the developing seed. In hemp it is usually removed before the seed is eaten.
Botany & GeneticsCannabinoidsn.
The family of compounds produced in the resin glands of cannabis flowers. THC and CBD are the best known, but the plant makes more than a hundred of them.
Cannabinoids & NutritionCannabis Indican.
A shorter, bushier cannabis type with broader leaves and denser flower clusters, historically tied to the Indian subcontinent and higher resin production.
Botany & GeneticsCannabis Ruderalisn.
A short, rugged, wild-growing cannabis type from Russia and Eastern Europe. It flowers based on plant age rather than day length, a trait breeders now use deliberately.
Botany & GeneticsCannabis Sativan.
The species that nearly all industrial hemp belongs to, written Cannabis sativa L. after Linnaeus. Tall, fast growing, and selected for long stalk fiber and seed yield.
Botany & GeneticsCanopyn.
The upper layer of leaves and branches that shades the ground underneath. Fast canopy closure is how a hemp stand smothers weeds without herbicide.
Botany & GeneticsCanvasn.
Heavy plain-woven cloth traditionally made from hemp. The word itself derives from cannabis.
Fiber & ProcessingCarbon Sequestrationn.
Capturing atmospheric carbon and locking it into soil or long-lived material. A hemp crop pulls carbon down fast, and building it into hempcrete keeps it there for the life of the wall.
Sustainability & EnvironmentCBDabbr.
Cannabidiol, a non-intoxicating cannabinoid and the compound that built the modern hemp extract market. It does not produce a high and is often used to moderate the effects of THC.
Also: cannabidiolCannabinoids & NutritionCBGabbr.
Cannabigerol, the precursor compound from which other cannabinoids are built in the plant. Sold as a minor cannabinoid in its own right.
Also: cannabigerolMarket & ComplianceCBNabbr.
Cannabinol, formed as THC degrades with age, light, and heat. Its presence is often a sign of old or poorly stored material.
Also: cannabinolMarket & ComplianceCellulosen.
The carbohydrate that forms plant cell walls and gives stalks their structure. Hemp is unusually cellulose-rich, which is what makes it valuable for paper, textiles, and bioplastics.
Materials & ManufacturingCertificate of Analysisn.
A third-party lab report showing the cannabinoid content, and ideally the contaminant screening, of a specific batch. No COA means no sale to any serious buyer.
Also: COAMarket & ComplianceCO2 Extractionn.
Using pressurized carbon dioxide as a solvent to pull cannabinoids from plant material. Higher equipment cost than ethanol, no residual solvent to purge.
Market & ComplianceCompositesn.
Materials built by combining fiber with a binding matrix to get properties neither has alone. Hemp fiber composites are already in production car door panels across Europe.
Materials & ManufacturingCookv.
To reduce fibrous raw material to pulp using heat and chemicals.
Materials & ManufacturingCortexn.
The outer layer of the hemp stalk, sitting above the woody core. This is where the long bast fibers live.
Also: barkBotany & GeneticsCottonn.
The soft fiber crop of the Gossypium genus. It demands heavy irrigation and chemical inputs, which is why it is the usual benchmark when hemp fiber sustainability comes up.
Botany & GeneticsCrop Rotationn.
Planting different crops in sequence on the same ground across seasons. Hemp fits well in rotation with corn, soybeans, and canola because its taproot breaks compaction and it leaves clean ground behind.
Cultivation & HarvestCrude Extractn.
The raw output of the first extraction pass, still carrying fats, waxes, and chlorophyll. It is the lowest-value tradeable form of extracted cannabinoids.
Market & ComplianceCultivarn.
A named variety bred and selected for specific traits such as fiber yield, seed oil content, maturity window, or cannabinoid profile. Choosing the wrong cultivar for your latitude is the most common first-year mistake.
Botany & GeneticsCultivationn.
The work of raising a crop, from ground preparation through harvest.
Cultivation & HarvestCurev.
To dry harvested material slowly under controlled temperature and humidity so aroma, color, and structural strength are preserved rather than driven off.
Cannabinoids & NutritionDecarboxylationn.
Applying heat to convert acid-form cannabinoids such as THCA and CBDA into their active forms. It is also why raw and heated material test differently.
Also: decarbMarket & ComplianceDecorticationn.
Mechanically separating the bast fiber from the woody hurd. It is the bottleneck step in the North American fiber supply chain, because decortication capacity is what the region still lacks.
Fiber & ProcessingDelta-8 THCn.
An isomer of THC usually produced by chemically converting CBD rather than extracted directly. It occupies a contested legal space that varies sharply by state.
Market & ComplianceDenimn.
Coarse twill cloth used for jeans and workwear, conventionally cotton but increasingly blended with hemp for durability.
Fiber & ProcessingDensityn.
How many plants occupy a given area. High density drives tall, thin, unbranched stalks ideal for fiber; low density gives branchier plants better suited to grain or flower.
Cultivation & HarvestDetergentn.
A cleaning agent used in soaps. Hempseed oil has long been used in soap making.
Materials & ManufacturingDew Rettingn.
Retting stalks by leaving them in the field so dew, rain, and soil microbes do the work. Cheapest method, but quality depends entirely on the weather.
Also: field rettingFiber & ProcessingDigestv.
To break organic matter down into simpler components, whether biologically or chemically.
Materials & ManufacturingDioeciousadj.
Having male and female reproductive organs on separate plants. Most traditional fiber landraces are dioecious, which complicates even harvest timing.
Botany & GeneticsDistillaten.
A refined extract concentrated through distillation, usually high in a single cannabinoid and stripped of plant material.
Market & ComplianceDitchweedn.
Feral hemp growing wild across the American Midwest, most of it descended from WWII-era Hemp for Victory plantings. Low in THC and genetically unimproved.
Botany & GeneticsDuckn.
A tightly woven, lighter-weight canvas prized for water resistance. It sailed ships, covered wagons, and became the original material for work jeans.
Fiber & ProcessingEcosystemn.
A self-contained environment of diverse, interdependent life forms distinct from neighboring communities.
Sustainability & EnvironmentEdestinn.
The dominant storage protein in hempseed. Its structure closely resembles proteins already circulating in human blood, which is part of why hempseed protein digests so easily.
Cannabinoids & NutritionEntourage Effectn.
The theory that cannabinoids and terpenes work better in combination than in isolation. Widely cited in marketing, still thin on clinical evidence.
Market & ComplianceEnzymen.
A protein that accelerates a specific biochemical reaction, including the reactions inside the plant that build cannabinoids from their acid precursors.
Cannabinoids & NutritionEradicationn.
The deliberate destruction of a plant population, whether by chemical, mechanical, or regulatory means. In cannabis history it usually refers to state destruction programs.
Cultivation & HarvestEssential Fatty Acidsn.
Fats the human body cannot manufacture and must take in through diet. Hempseed oil supplies both omega-6 and omega-3 at a ratio widely considered close to ideal.
Also: EFAsCannabinoids & NutritionEthanol Extractionn.
Using food-grade alcohol as the solvent to strip cannabinoids from biomass. Fast and scalable, and the dominant method at commercial volume.
Market & ComplianceExtrusionn.
Forcing raw fiber material through a die under heat and pressure to reshape it, commonly used in making composites and pellets.
Fiber & ProcessingFabricn.
Fibers turned into a sheet of textile material by weaving, knitting, or bonding.
Fiber & ProcessingFarm Billn.
The US omnibus agriculture legislation renewed roughly every five years. The 2018 edition removed hemp from the Controlled Substances Act and set the 0.3 percent THC line that defines the crop legally.
Market & ComplianceFedrinan.
A low-THC fiber cultivar developed in the European breeding programs, long used as a reference line for dual-purpose production.
Botany & GeneticsFertilizern.
Natural or synthetic material added to soil to supply the nutrients a crop needs. Hemp is a heavy nitrogen feeder during vegetative growth.
Cultivation & HarvestFibern.
Any thread-like tissue that can be pulped, spun, or woven. Hemp produces both long bast fiber and short core fiber from a single stalk.
Fiber & ProcessingFiber Separationn.
Any process that pulls fiber away from the hurd, whether mechanical, steam-based, or chemical.
Fiber & ProcessingFiberboardn.
Building panel made by pressing fibers together with a binder.
Materials & ManufacturingFiberglassn.
Building and insulation material made from spun glass fibers. Hemp fiber batts are the usual non-carcinogenic alternative put forward against it.
Materials & ManufacturingField Rettingn.
Rotting cut stalks where they lie in the field to loosen the fiber bonds. Functionally the same practice as dew retting.
Fiber & ProcessingFlaxn.
Linum usitatissimum, the slender annual grown for linen fiber and linseed oil. Hemp closest processing relative, and much hemp equipment is adapted flax equipment.
Botany & GeneticsFueln.
Any material burned or converted to produce heat or power.
Materials & ManufacturingFull Spectrumadj.
An extract retaining the plant full range of cannabinoids and terpenes, including trace THC.
Market & ComplianceFungusn.
A chlorophyll-free organism reproducing by spores, including the molds and mildews that damage stored hemp grain and dense flower.
Cultivation & HarvestGenen.
A unit of heredity carried in the plant DNA that determines a specific inherited trait.
Botany & GeneticsGenusn.
A taxonomic rank sitting above species and grouping closely related plants. Cannabis is the genus, sativa is the species, and the genus name is always capitalized.
Botany & GeneticsGMPabbr.
Good Manufacturing Practice, the documented quality system expected of anyone producing ingestible or topical products at scale. Buyers of any size will ask for it.
Market & ComplianceGrainn.
Harvested seed destined for food, feed, or pressing. Hemp grown for grain is managed very differently from hemp grown for fiber.
Cultivation & HarvestHacklev.
To draw fiber through a bed of metal spikes, combing it straight, removing remaining hurd, and splitting long line fiber from short tow.
Also: heckleFiber & ProcessingHardboardn.
A thin, dense board pressed from plant fiber under high heat and pressure.
Materials & ManufacturingHarrowv.
To drag an implement across plowed ground to break clods and level the seedbed before planting.
Cultivation & HarvestHectaren.
A metric unit of land equal to 10,000 square meters, roughly 2.47 acres. The standard unit in European and Canadian hemp data.
Cultivation & HarvestHemicellulosen.
A shorter-chain organic compound found alongside cellulose in the cell wall, mainly useful as a feedstock for plastics and fuels.
Materials & ManufacturingHempn.
Cannabis sativa grown for fiber, grain, or cannabinoids rather than intoxication. In the United States it is legally defined as cannabis containing no more than 0.3 percent delta-9 THC by dry weight.
Botany & GeneticsHempcreten.
A bio-composite building material made by mixing hemp hurd with a lime binder and water. It is not structural, so it infills around a frame, and it regulates humidity while sequestering carbon in the wall.
Also: hemp limeMaterials & ManufacturingHempenadj.
Made of hemp. An older English adjective that is worth reviving, as in a hempen rope or hempen cloth.
Botany & GeneticsHempseedn.
The seed of the hemp plant, botanically an achene. It carries a complete protein, a favorable fat profile, and is the raw material for hempseed oil.
Also: hemp seed, hemp heartBotany & GeneticsHerbiciden.
A chemical designed to kill unwanted plants. One of hemp core selling points is that a dense stand usually needs none.
Cultivation & HarvestHermaphroditen.
A plant that develops both male and female flowers, often triggered by stress. In seed and flower production it causes unwanted pollination.
Botany & GeneticsHot Hempn.
A crop that tests above the legal THC threshold at compliance sampling. Depending on jurisdiction it may be remediated or destroyed, and it is the single largest financial risk in cannabinoid hemp farming.
Market & ComplianceHurdn.
The woody inner core of the hemp stalk, left over after the bast fiber is removed. Once treated as waste, now the base material for hempcrete, animal bedding, and absorbents.
Also: shiv, shives, hurdsFiber & ProcessingHybridn.
The offspring of two genetically distinct parent lines, crossed to combine traits from both. Later generations tend to drift back toward the parent stock.
Botany & GeneticsHydrogen Peroxiden.
An environmentally mild bleaching agent that breaks down into water and oxygen. It is sufficient on its own for whitening hemp pulp.
Materials & ManufacturingIndustrial Hempn.
The commercial and regulatory term for hemp cultivated under license for fiber, grain, or biomass. The phrase exists mostly to separate the crop from drug-type cannabis in the eyes of the law.
Botany & GeneticsInsulationn.
Material that slows the transfer of heat. Hemp fiber batts and hempcrete both insulate while staying vapor-permeable, which helps walls manage moisture.
Materials & ManufacturingIsolaten.
A single cannabinoid purified to near 100 percent, typically CBD, with everything else removed. Sold as a crystalline powder.
Market & ComplianceKenafn.
Hibiscus cannabinus, a separate bast fiber crop often grown alongside or compared with hemp. Similar end uses but less versatile, and it needs a warmer climate.
Botany & GeneticsKnitv.
To make fabric by looping yarn through itself rather than interlacing it on a loom, which is what gives knits their stretch.
Fiber & ProcessingKompoltin.
A Hungarian fiber cultivar that became a global benchmark for stalk yield and reliably low THC. Still widely referenced in variety trials.
Botany & GeneticsLigninn.
The natural polymer that glues plant cells together and makes stalks woody and rigid. Hemp bast fiber is low in lignin, which is why hemp pulp needs far less chemical treatment than wood pulp.
Materials & ManufacturingLinenn.
Fine fabric woven from flax fiber, and the closest textile cousin to woven hemp cloth.
Fiber & ProcessingLow THCadj.
Describes cannabis bred to stay under the legal intoxicant threshold. The ceiling is 0.3 percent in the United States and between 0.2 and 0.3 percent across most of Europe.
Cannabinoids & NutritionManuren.
Animal waste applied to soil as fertilizer, supplying nitrogen and organic matter.
Cultivation & HarvestMarijuanan.
A slang and legal term for intoxicating cannabis. The industry increasingly avoids it because it entered American law through Prohibition-era propaganda rather than botany.
Cannabinoids & NutritionMonoculturen.
Growing a single crop on the same ground season after season. It simplifies management but depletes soil and concentrates pest pressure.
Cultivation & HarvestMonoeciousadj.
Carrying both male and female flowers on the same plant. Monoecious cultivars mature evenly, which makes them far better suited to combine harvesting.
Botany & GeneticsMulchn.
Plant material spread over soil to hold moisture, moderate temperature, and suppress weeds. Hemp hurd works well as a mulch.
Cultivation & HarvestNonwovenn.
Matting made by tangling and bonding fibers rather than weaving them, similar in principle to felt. A major outlet for hemp tow and short fiber.
Fiber & ProcessingPerennialadj.
A plant that lives and produces for more than two years, regrowing each season from established roots rather than from new seed.
Botany & GeneticsPesticiden.
A chemical applied to kill insects or other crop pests. Very few are federally approved for hemp, which makes cultural controls the primary tool.
Cultivation & HarvestPhytoremediationn.
Using plants to pull contaminants such as heavy metals out of soil. Hemp does this well, which is exactly why anything grown on remediation ground must never enter the food or extract supply.
Sustainability & EnvironmentPolymern.
A large molecule built from repeating units. Conventional polymers are petroleum-derived; hemp cellulose can be used to make bio-based versions.
Materials & ManufacturingPotashn.
Potassium carbonate, historically made from plant ash and used as fertilizer and in soap making.
Cultivation & HarvestPresscaken.
The solid material left behind after oil is pressed out of hempseed. It gets milled into protein powder or sold as livestock feed.
Also: seed cake, oil cakeCannabinoids & NutritionPulpn.
Raw cellulose extracted from plant material and used to make paper and board. It can be sourced from hurd, bast fiber, or wood.
Materials & ManufacturingReapv.
To cut the standing crop, by sickle, scythe, or machine.
Cultivation & HarvestRegenerative Agriculturen.
Farming that improves soil health, water retention, and biodiversity rather than merely sustaining them. Hemp fits because of its deep taproot, dense canopy, and low input demand.
Sustainability & EnvironmentRegulationn.
A rule imposed by government that protects or restricts an activity, depending entirely on where you stand.
Materials & ManufacturingResinn.
A solid or semi-solid organic substance that does not dissolve in water. In the plant it is the sticky material in the flower glands; in manufacturing it is the matrix binding a composite.
Materials & ManufacturingResourcen.
An available reserve of something that can be drawn on and counted as wealth.
Materials & ManufacturingRettingv.
Controlled rotting that breaks down the pectin binding bast fiber to the stalk core. Get it right and fiber separates cleanly; overdo it and the fiber itself weakens.
Fiber & ProcessingRopen.
Heavy cord made from twisted or braided fiber strands. Hemp rope held the world shipping fleet together for centuries because it resisted saltwater rot.
Fiber & ProcessingScutchv.
To beat broken stalks so the loosened hurd falls away from the fiber, traditionally against a wooden board with a wooden blade.
Fiber & ProcessingSeedn.
The mature ovule of a plant, carrying the embryo and the food reserve it needs to germinate. In hemp it is both the planting input and a harvested product.
Cultivation & HarvestSeed to Salen.
Tracking systems that follow material from planting through final sale, required in many state programs.
Market & ComplianceShivesn.
Thin woody splinters broken off the stalk core during processing. Effectively the fragmented form of hurd.
Fiber & ProcessingShockn.
Cut stalks stood upright in a teepee arrangement, butt ends spread and tops together, so the bundle sheds rain and dries in the field.
Cultivation & HarvestSilagen.
Green plant material preserved by fermentation in an airtight silo or wrap.
Cultivation & HarvestSinsemillan.
Unpollinated female cannabis grown seedless to maximize resin. For fiber and grain growers it matters mainly as context for pollen drift disputes between neighboring operations.
Botany & GeneticsSowv.
To place seed into the soil, by hand, drill, or machine.
Cultivation & HarvestSpeciesn.
A group of organisms sharing defining characteristics that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring. It ranks below genus and above variety.
Botany & GeneticsSpinv.
To twist loose fiber into a continuous thread.
Fiber & ProcessingStalkn.
The main stem of the plant. The hemp stalk is the whole business case for fiber, carrying bast on the outside and hurd at the core.
Cultivation & HarvestSteam Explosionn.
Forcing high-pressure steam into a chamber of stalks and releasing it suddenly, so the pressure drop blows the fiber bundles apart.
Fiber & ProcessingSterilizationn.
Treating hempseed, usually with steam, so it can no longer germinate. It was a legal requirement for imported seed in the US for decades.
Materials & ManufacturingStrawn.
The stalks left after the grain has been taken off. Hemp straw is not waste; it is the raw material for the entire fiber side of the business.
Cultivation & HarvestStubblingn.
The short stalk stubs left standing after the crop is cut. Hemp stubble is notoriously tough on tires and tillage equipment.
Cultivation & HarvestSustainableadj.
Able to keep going indefinitely, supplying raw material without degrading the system producing it.
Sustainability & EnvironmentSwathn.
A band of cut crop laid across the field behind the harvester. In hemp, the swath is where dew retting happens.
Cultivation & HarvestSwinglen.
The wooden, knife-shaped tool used to scutch hemp, beating the stalks clean by hand.
Fiber & ProcessingTerpenesn.
Aromatic compounds produced alongside cannabinoids that give each variety its smell and may shape its effects.
Market & ComplianceTextilen.
Either a finished woven cloth or the raw fiber suitable for making one, such as hemp, flax, cotton, or wool.
Fiber & ProcessingTHCabbr.
Tetrahydrocannabinol, the main intoxicating compound in cannabis and the one regulators measure. Hemp is legally defined by containing almost none of it.
Cannabinoids & NutritionTotal THCn.
Delta-9 THC plus the THC that THCA will convert into when heated, calculated as THCA multiplied by 0.877 and added to delta-9. This is the number most compliance testing actually uses.
Market & ComplianceTown.
The shorter, tangled secondary fibers separated out during hackling. Lower value than long line fiber but still useful for nonwovens and coarse yarn.
Fiber & ProcessingTwinen.
A strong thread made by twisting two or more yarns together.
Fiber & ProcessingValue-Adding Chainn.
The sequence of steps that turn a raw input into a finished product, each one adding worth. For hemp the chain runs soil, stalk, fiber, yarn, fabric, garment, and most of the margin sits past the farm gate.
Also: value chainMaterials & ManufacturingVarietyn.
A subdivision below species used to separate populations with consistent, heritable differences. In everyday hemp trade the word is often used loosely where cultivar would be more precise.
Botany & GeneticsVarnishn.
A resin solution that dries to a hard, glossy protective coat. Hempseed oil was a standard base for varnishes and paints before petroleum alternatives took over.
Materials & ManufacturingViableadj.
Describes seed still capable of germinating and producing a healthy plant. Viability falls off with age, heat, and moisture, so germination rate should be tested before planting.
Botany & GeneticsWater Rettingn.
Submerging stalks in water to break down the binding pectins. Faster and more consistent than dew retting, but it produces effluent that has to be managed.
Fiber & ProcessingWeavev.
To interlace two sets of yarn at right angles on a loom to make cloth.
Fiber & ProcessingWeedsn.
Unwanted plants competing with the crop for light, water, and nutrients.
Cultivation & HarvestYarnn.
Spun strands of fiber prepared for weaving or knitting.
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The invented language of the hemp movement. A collaborative, open-source vocabulary built by hempen people who speak hempanese, because it is hemportant.
Exhemplaryadj.
A well-made hemp product, or someone who represents the plant and what it is capable of. As in, she is an exhemplary hemptrepreneur.
Hempxicon CoinagesExhemplen.
An example of something made from hemp.
Hempxicon CoinagesExhemplifyv.
To exhibit a use for the hemp plant.
Hempxicon CoinagesHempathicadj.
Having empathy for someone struggling to integrate or overstand hemp. Also hempathy.
Also: hempathyHempxicon CoinagesHempawareadj.
Awake to what the hemp plant is and what it can do, and carrying that awareness into how you live and build.
Hempxicon CoinagesHempducationn.
The process of learning about cannabis hemp. Also hempducate, hempducating: to actively share the benefits, history, uses, and value of the plant with others.
Also: hempducateHempxicon CoinagesHemphasisn.
Putting emphasis on the fact that something is made from the hemp plant.
Hempxicon CoinagesHempifestationn.
Something a person or company brings into being from the hemp plant. Dream up a hemp product, then actually produce it, and what you are holding is a hempifestation.
Hempxicon CoinagesHempinessn.
A lasting happiness that comes from actually living with hemp: clean, healthy, sustainable food, homes, clothing, and thousands of things beyond.
Hempxicon CoinagesHempiren.
An abundant, clean, healthy community of conscious and hempaware people.
Hempxicon CoinagesHempiricaladj.
From empirical. A description of all the evidence showing how critical cannabis hemp is to our healing, our well-being, and the prosperity of our nation and planet.
Hempxicon CoinagesHempishmentn.
Being nourished by the hemp plant.
Hempxicon CoinagesHempispheren.
The world of someone who is hempaware and uses hemp in their daily life.
Hempxicon CoinagesHemplementv.
To integrate hemp into a project or task. You are designing a new pair of shoes, you want a sustainable earth-friendly material, so you reach for hemp fabric or hemp twine.
Hempxicon CoinagesHemplorationn.
An exploration of anything hemp related. Also hemporational.
Also: hemporationalHempxicon CoinagesHempnosisn.
The spell many people are waking up from, the one that cast hemp as the devil weed or the cause of reefer madness. Also hempnotized.
Also: hempnotizedHempxicon CoinagesHempowerv.
To empower someone with the benefits, value, and experience of cannabis hemp. Also hempowering, hempowered, hempowerment.
Also: hempowermentHempxicon CoinagesHempphographicn.
An infographic covering the benefits, value, uses, qualities, or market data of hemp.
Hempxicon CoinagesHempportunityn.
An opportunity in the hemp industry, especially for hemptrepreneurs or anyone looking to get into the hemp movement.
Hempxicon CoinagesHempprenticeshipn.
A system for training the next generation of hemptrepreneurs, hemptographers, and hemp artists through shoulder-to-shoulder, hands-on work in the trades. Also hempprentice.
Also: hempprenticeHempxicon CoinagesHempressn.
A beloved woman passionate about hemp, often joined with her hemperor.
Also: hemperorHempxicon CoinagesHemptionaryn.
A hemp dictionary of invented hemp words. This page is, in part, a hemptionary.
Hempxicon CoinagesHemptrepreneurn.
An individual working across multiple hemp endeavors, whether selling hemp seed, offering hemp diapers, or working the front line of legalization. Some spell it hempreneur.
Also: hempreneurHempxicon CoinagesHempventorn.
A creative and innovative inventor of hemp products, technologies, and goods.
Hempxicon CoinagesHempvestmentn.
An investment in something hemp.
Hempxicon CoinagesHempvestorn.
Someone who invests in hemp.
Hempxicon CoinagesHempyadj.
Happy about hemp, or about anything hemp related.
Hempxicon Coinages