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Hemlock
| hemlock tree
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Hemlock has 4 senses
- hemlock(n = noun.substance) Array - poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium; "Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking hemlock" is a kind of phytotoxin, plant toxin
- hemlock(n = noun.plant) california fern, conium maculatum, nebraska fern, poison hemlock, poison parsley, winter fern - 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; Array is a member of conium, genus conium
- hemlock(n = noun.plant) Array - soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock; Array is a kind of wood
- hemlock(n = noun.plant) hemlock tree - an evergreen tree; Array is a member of genus tsuga, tsuga
is a kind of poisonous plant
has particulars: canadian hemlock, eastern hemlock, spruce pine, tsuga canadensis, carolina hemlock, tsuga caroliniana, black hemlock, mountain hemlock, tsuga mertensiana, pacific hemlock, tsuga heterophylla, west coast hemlock, western hemlock
is a kind of conifer, coniferous tree
CIDE DICTIONARY
Hemlock, n. [OE. hemeluc, humloc, AS. hemlic, hymlic.].
- The name of several poisonous umbelliferous herbs having finely cut leaves and small white flowers, as the
Cicuta maculata ,Cicuta bulbifera , andCicuta virosa , and theConium maculatum . See Conium. [1913 Webster]" The potion of hemlock administered to Socrates is by some thought to have been a decoction ofCicuta virosa , or water hemlock, by others, ofConium maculatum ." [1913 Webster] - An evergreen tree common in North America (
Abies Canadensis or Tsuga Canadensis ); hemlock spruce. [1913 Webster]"The murmuring pines and the hemlocks." [1913 Webster] - The wood or timber of the hemlock tree. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Hemlock, n.
1 a a poisonous umbelliferous plant, Conium maculatum, with fernlike leaves and small white flowers. b a poisonous potion obtained from this.
2 (in full hemlock fir or spruce) a any coniferous tree of the genus Tsuga, having foliage that smells like hemlock when crushed. b the timber or pitch of these trees.
1 a a poisonous umbelliferous plant, Conium maculatum, with fernlike leaves and small white flowers. b a poisonous potion obtained from this.
2 (in full hemlock fir or spruce) a any coniferous tree of the genus Tsuga, having foliage that smells like hemlock when crushed. b the timber or pitch of these trees.
Etymology
OE hymlic(e)
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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 ropeROGET THESAURUS
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Bane
N bane, curse, evil, hurtfulness, painfulness, scourge, damnosa hereditas, white elephant, sting, fang, thorn, tang, bramble, brier, nettle, poison, toxin, teratogen, leaven, virus venom, arsenic, antimony, tartar emetic, strychnine, nicotine, miasma, miasm, mephitis, malaria, azote, sewer gas, pest, Albany hemp, arsenious oxide, arsenious acid, bichloride of mercury, carbonic acid, carbonic gas, choke damp, corrosive sublimate, fire damp, hydrocyanic acid, cyanide, Prussic acid, hydrogen cyanide, marsh gas, nux vomica, ratsbane, hemlock, hellebore, nightshade, belladonna, henbane, aconite, banewort, bhang, ganja, hashish, Upas tree, Toxline (online), rust, worm, helminth, moth, moth and rust, fungus, mildew, dry rot, canker, cankerworm, cancer, torpedo, viper, demon, toxicology, baneful, poisonous, phr, bibere venenum in auro, Contingent Subservience.
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