hemlock
About 0.75 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun Any of the poisonous umbelliferous plants, of the genera Conium, either Conium maculatum or Conium chaerophylloides. Cicuta (water hemlock).
- noun Conium, either Conium maculatum or Conium chaerophylloides.
- noun Cicuta (water hemlock).
- noun Poison obtained from these Conium and Cicuta plants. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
- noun Any of several coniferous trees, of the genus Tsuga, that grow in North America; the wood of such trees.
Similar words
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Word family
hemlocks
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