Hemlock

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1. Noun

The name of several poisonous umbelliferous herbs having finely cut leaves and small white flowers, as the Cicuta maculata, bulbifera, and virosa, and the Conium maculatum. See Conium.

2. Noun

An evergreen tree common in North America (Abies, / Tsuga, Canadensis); hemlock spruce.

3. Noun

The wood or timber of the hemlock tree.

4. 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
Vocabulary classified under Biology

5. Noun

an evergreen tree, could refer to any one of a genus of conifers named Tsuga
Vocabulary classified under Nature and environment

6. Noun

soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock
Vocabulary classified under Nature and environment

7. Noun

poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium; "Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking hemlock"
Vocabulary classified under Environmental science
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