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Sativa is found in many latin names of plants, for example Allium Sativum (garlic) and Cannabis Sativa which is the plant from which hemp - and marijuana- come. It is Latin meaning "sown" or "cultivated," and is suppopsed to mean "useful" as Linneus wrote in 1763. (Cannabis is Greek). It is used in many other plant names like that of oats (Avena Sativa) and also in the latin name for the plant from which is obtained the "black seed" = black cumin = cörek otu (Turkish), Nigella Sativa. This word has also been seen translated as "wild." Above translation courtesy of a Wikipedia disambiguation page.

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