hemlock

noun

an evergreen tree

soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock

large branching biennial herb native to Eurasia and Africa and adventive in North America having large fernlike leaves and white flowers

poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium

Roots

hymlicehemlock- · Old English · poison plant

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