hemlock
Nouns
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(n) poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium
- Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking 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 California fern, Conium maculatum, Nebraska fern, poison hemlock, poison parsley, winter fern,
- (n) soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock
- (n) an evergreen tree hemlock tree,