Hemlock

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. 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.
  • n. The wood of such trees, used as a source of lumber, wood pulp, and tannic acid.
  • n. Any of several poisonous plants of the genera Conium and Cicuta, such as the poison hemlock.
  • n. A poison obtained from the poison hemlock.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any of several poisonous umbelliferous plants, of the genera Conium (Conium maculatum and Conium chaerophylloides) and Cicuta.
  • n. The poison obtained from these plants.
  • n. Any of several coniferous trees, of the genus Tsuga, that grow in North America; the wood of such trees.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • n. An evergreen tree common in North America (Abies Canadensis or Tsuga Canadensis); hemlock spruce.
  • n. The wood or timber of the hemlock tree.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A poisonous plant, Conium maculatum, of the natural order Umbelliferæ.
  • n. The hemlock-spruce.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an evergreen tree
  • n. poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium
  • 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. soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock
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