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| hem·lock [ hém lòk ] (plural hem·locks or hem·lock) |
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1. plants poisonous plant: a very poisonous herb of the carrot family that has finely cut leaves, especially poison hemlock. Genus Conium.
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2. poison: a poison obtained from the fruit of the poison hemlock plant. Hemlock was used in ancient Greece to execute people, and Socrates was forced to drink it when he was condemned to death.
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3. trees evergreen tree: an evergreen tree of the pine family with short blunt needles and small cones. Genus Tsuga.
See also western hemlock
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4. industry hemlock wood: the wood of the hemlock tree. Use: construction, paper pulp.
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| [ Old English hymlic(e), hemlic, origin ?] |
