EGAVE

hemlock

About 0.75 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Any of the poisonous umbelliferous plants, of the genera Conium, either Conium maculatum or Conium chaerophylloides. Cicuta (water hemlock).
  2. noun Conium, either Conium maculatum or Conium chaerophylloides.
  3. noun Cicuta (water hemlock).
  4. noun Poison obtained from these Conium and Cicuta plants. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  5. 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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