Bast vs Cannabis - What's the difference?
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Fibre made from the phloem of certain plants and used for matting and cord.
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A tall annual dioecious plant (Cannabis'', especially ''Cannabis sativa ), native to central Asia and having alternate, palmately divided leaves and tough bast fibers.
A mildly euphoriant, intoxicating hallucinogenic drug prepared from various parts of this plant.
The purified and decarboxylated resin of the cannabis plant used for medicinal purposes rather than for any intoxicating effects.
As nouns the difference between bast and cannabis
is that bast is fibre made from the phloem of certain plants and used for matting and cord while cannabis is a tall annual dioecious plant (Cannabis, especially Cannabis sativa), native to central Asia and having alternate, palmately divided leaves and tough bast fibers.bast
English
(wikipedia)Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.}}
- I thought I saw Him in the Long Walk there, by the bed of Nelly Roche, tending a fallen flower with a wisp of bast .
- He had taken along a long bast rope in his sleigh, since it was the custom on longer journeys to have a spare rope in case the reins needed mending.
