Definition of Hemlock. Meaning of Hemlock. Synonyms of Hemlock

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Definition of Hemlock

Hemlock
Hemlock Hem"lock, n. [OE. hemeluc, humloc, AS. hemlic, hymlic.] 1. (Bot.) 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. Note: The potion of hemlock administered to Socrates is by some thought to have been a decoction of Cicuta virosa, or water hemlock, by others, of Conium maculatum. 2. (Bot.) An evergreen tree common in North America (Abies, or Tsuga, Canadensis); hemlock spruce. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks. --Longfellow. 3. The wood or timber of the hemlock tree. Ground hemlock, or Dwarf hemlock. See under Ground.

Meaning of Hemlock from wikipedia

- water hemlock and hemlock water-dropwort Tsuga, a genus of coniferous trees Hemlock, Indiana Hemlock, Michigan Hemlock, New York Hemlock, Ohio Hemlock, Tillamook...
- Tsuga canadensis, also known as eastern hemlock, eastern hemlock-spruce, or Canadian hemlock, and in the French-speaking regions of Canada as pruche du...
- Conium maculatum, known as hemlock (British English) or poison hemlock (American English), is a highly poisonous flowering plant in the carrot family...
- Hemlock Grove is an American horror television series produced by Eli Roth and developed by Brian McGreevy and Lee Shipman. It is a production of Gaumont...
- English-language common name "hemlock" arose from a perceived similarity in the smell of its crushed foliage to that of the unrelated plant hemlock. Unlike the latter...
- The Hemlock Society (sometimes called Hemlock Society USA) was an American right-to-die and ****isted suicide advocacy organization which existed from...
- Hemlock Lake is one of the minor Finger Lakes. It is mostly located in Livingston County, New York, south of Rochester, with a portion overlapping into...
- The Hemlock Reservoir is a reservoir in Fairfield, Connecticut, United States. Its completion was marked by the creation of the Hemlock Reservoir Dam...
- Hemlock Grove is a 2012 horror-thriller debut novel by American author Brian McGreevy. The book was released on March 27, 2012 through Farrar, Straus...
- Adelges tsugae, the hemlock woolly adelgid (/əˈdɛl.dʒɪd/) or HWA, is an insect of the order Hemiptera (true bugs) native to East Asia. It feeds by sucking...