hempseed
noun
hempseed is a noun meaning “The seed of the hemp plant, used as high-protein food or fishing bait” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-E-M-P-S-E-E-D, and it appears about once in every 37 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hempseed is hempseeds.
What does hempseed mean?
noun
- 1
The seed of the hemp plant, used as high-protein food or fishing bait.
- 2
A gallows bird; a person hanged.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce hempseed?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-hempseed.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of hempseed
- hempseeds plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hempseed?
Hempseed appears about once in every 37 million words in written English, the 187,122nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Hempseed in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense seed of the hemp plant:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does hempseed come from?
From Middle English, equivalent to hemp + seed.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).