Hemlock
English Meaning
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.
- Any of various coniferous evergreen trees of the genus Tsuga of North America and eastern Asia, having small cones and short flat leaves with two white bands underneath.
- The wood of such trees, used as a source of lumber, wood pulp, and tannic acid.
- Any of several poisonous plants of the genera Conium and Cicuta, such as the poison hemlock.
- A poison obtained from the poison hemlock.