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water hemlock
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun water hemlock has 1 sense
- water hemlock(n = noun.plant) cicuta verosa - tall erect highly poisonous Eurasiatic perennial herb locally abundant in marshy areas; Array is a member of cicuta, genus cicuta
is a kind of poisonous plant
CIDE DICTIONARY
water hemlock,
A poisonous umbelliferous plant (Cicuta virosa ) of Europe; also, any one of several plants of that genus. [1913 Webster]
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