About The Word Hemlock
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Hemlock
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What's The Definition Of Hemlock?
[n] an evergreen tree
[n] soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock [n] large branching biennial herb native to Eurasia and Africa and adventive in North America having large fernlike leaves and white flowers; usually found in damp habitats; all parts extremely poisonous [n] poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium; "Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking hemlock" Synonyms | Synonyms for Hemlock: California fern | Conium maculatum | hemlock tree | Nebraska fern | poison hemlock | poison parsley | winter fern Related Terms | Find terms related to Hemlock: beheading | belladonna | burning | capital punishment | castor-oil plant | crucifixion | deadly nightshade | death camas | decapitation | decollation | defenestration | electrocution | ergot | execution | foxglove | fusillade | garrote | gassing | hanging | henbane | horsetail | jimsonweed | judicial murder | lapidation | mayapple | mescal bean | monkshood | necktie party | poison ivy | poison parsley | poison sumac | poisoning | pokeweed | shooting | stoning | strangling | strangulation | the ax | the block | the chair | the gallows | the gas chamber | the guillotine | the hot seat | the rope See Also | black hemlock | Canadian hemlock | Carolina hemlock | conifer | coniferous tree | Conium | eastern hemlock | genus Conium | genus Tsuga | hemlock | mountain hemlock | Pacific hemlock | phytotoxin | plant toxin | poisonous plant | spruce pine | Tsuga | Tsuga canadensis | Tsuga caroliniana | Tsuga heterophylla | Tsuga mertensiana | west coast hemlock | western hemlock | wood Hemlock In Webster's Dictionary \Hem"lock\, n. [OE. hemeluc, humloc, AS. hemlic,
hymlic.]
1. (Bot.) The name of several poisonous umbelliferous herbs
having finely cut leaves and small white flowers, as the
{Cicuta maculata}, {bulbifera}, and {virosa}, and the
{Conium maculatum}. See {Conium}.
Note: The potion of hemlock administered to Socrates is by
some thought to have been a decoction of {Cicuta
virosa}, or water hemlock, by others, of {Conium
maculatum}.
2. (Bot.) An evergreen tree common in North America ({Abies,
or Tsuga, Canadensis}); hemlock spruce.
The murmuring pines and the hemlocks. --Longfellow.
3. The wood or timber of the hemlock tree.
{Ground hemlock}, or {Dwarf hemlock}. See under {Ground}.
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