n. | 1. | (Bot.) 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. | |||
2. | (Bot.) An evergreen tree common in North America (Abies Canadensis | ||||
3. | The wood or timber of the hemlock tree.
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Noun | 1. | hemlock - poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium; "Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking hemlock" |
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3. | hemlock - soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock | |
4. | hemlock - an evergreen tree Synonyms: hemlock tree |