Hemlock

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Any of various coniferous evergreen trees of the genus Tsuga of North America and eastern Asia, having small cones and short flat leaves with two white bands underneath.
  • noun. The wood of such trees, used as a source of lumber, wood pulp, and tannic acid.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Any of several poisonous plants of the genera Conium and Cicuta of the parsley family, such as the poison hemlock.
  • noun. A poison obtained from the poison hemlock.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A poisonous plant, Conium maculatum, of the natural order Umbelliferæ.
  • noun. The hemlock-spruce.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The name of several poisonous umbelliferous herbs having finely cut leaves and small white flowers, as the Cicuta maculata, Cicuta bulbifera, and Cicuta virosa, and the Conium maculatum. See conium.
  • noun. An evergreen tree common in North America (Abies Canadensis or Tsuga Canadensis); hemlock spruce.
  • noun. The wood or timber of the hemlock tree.
  • noun. See under Ground.
  • noun. undefined
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Any of several poisonous umbelliferous plants, of the genera Conium (Conium maculatum and Conium chaerophylloides) and Cicuta.
  • noun. The poison obtained from these plants.
  • noun. Any of several coniferous trees, of the genus Tsuga, that grow in North America; the wood of such trees.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an evergreen tree
  • noun. poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium
  • noun. 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
  • noun. soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock
  • Word Usage
    "This kind of hemlock is also abundant along the coast of British Columbia and in the Selkirk Mountains along the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway."
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    conium