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ma⋅ri⋅jua⋅na

  [mar-uh-wah-nuh]
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–noun
1. hemp (def. 1).
2. the dried leaves and female flowers of the hemp plant, used in cigarette form as a narcotic or hallucinogen.
Also, ma⋅ri⋅hua⋅na.

Origin:
1890–95, Americanism; < MexSp marihuana, mariguana; traditional assoc. with the personal name María Juana is prob. a folk etym.
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mar·i·jua·na also mar·i·hua·na   (mār'ə-wä'nə)   
n.  

  1. The cannabis plant.

  2. A preparation made from the dried flower clusters and leaves of the cannabis plant, usually smoked or eaten to induce euphoria.


[Spanish marihuana.]
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marijuana 
1918, alt. by influence of Sp. proper name Maria Juana "Mary Jane" from mariguan (1894), from Mex.Sp. marihuana, of uncertain origin.
"Marijuana ... makes you sensitive. Courtesy has a great deal to do with being sensitive. Unfortunately marijuana makes you the kind of sensitive where you insist on everyone listening to the drum solo in Iron Butterfly's 'In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida' fifty or sixty times." [P.J. O'Rourke, "Modern Manners," 1983]
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Main Entry: mar·i·jua·na
Variant: also mar·i·hua·na /"mar-&-'wän-& also -'hwän-/
Function:noun
1 : HEMP 1
2 : the dried leaves and flowering tops of the pistillate hempplant that yield THC and are sometimes smoked in cigarettes for their intoxicating effect —compare BHANG, CANNABIS, HASHISH
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marijuana mar·i·jua·na or mar·i·hua·na (mār'ə-wä'nə)
n.

  1. The cannabis plant.

  2. A preparation made from the dried flower clusters and leaves of the cannabis plant, usually smoked or eaten to induce euphoria.

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