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Hemlock logo #10101) An evergreen tree 2) Canadian evergreen 3) Dangerous plant 4) Dangerous vegetation 5) Dangerous greenery 6) Dicey plant 7) Dicey greenery 8) Dicey vegetation 9) Dicey plant to eat 10) Dicey flora to eat 11) Dodgy flora to eat 12) Dodgy plant to eat 13) Exclusively Saxon word 14) Exclusively Anglo word
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Hemlock

Hemlock logo #10101) Drinkofdisaster 2) Poison
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Hemlock

Hemlock logo #21000[editor] Hemlock is a free Emacs-style text editor for most POSIX-compliant Unix systems. It follows the tradition of the Lisp Machine editor ZWEI and the ITS/TOPS-20 implementation of Emacs, but differs from many other Emacs variants in that it is written in Common Lisp rather than the usual Emacs Lisp — that is, the Lisp machine and ITS...
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Hemlock

Hemlock logo #21002• (n.) 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. • (n.) The wood or timber of the hemlock tree. • (n.) An evergreen tree common in North America (Abies, / Tsuga, Canadensis); hemlock spruce.He...
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hemlock

hemlock logo #21003any of about 14 species of coniferous evergreen trees comprising the genus Tsuga of the family Pinaceae, native to North America and central and ... [2 related articles]
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Hemlock

Hemlock logo #10004(Tsuga) These evergreen trees are commonly known as Hemlock or Hemlock Spruce. Hemlocks are found wild in North America, the Himalayas, Japan and China. Most of these trees are hardy and as other Conifers (cone-bearing tree), need a fairly clean atmosphere to survive. Hemlock can be distinguished from other Conifers by its flat, linear, dark green ...
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hemlock

hemlock logo #209731. <botany> 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. ... 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 Co...
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Hemlock

Hemlock logo #20972Hem'lock noun [ Middle English hemeluc , humloc , Anglo-Saxon hemlic , hymlic .] 1. (Botany) The name of several poisonous umbelliferous herbs having finely cut leaves and small white flowers, as the Cicuta maculata , bulbifera , and virosa...
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hemlock

hemlock logo #21219Type: Term Pronunciation: hem′lok Synonyms: conium
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Hemlock

Hemlock logo #21217Hemlock (Conium maculatum) is a poisonous biennial herb of the family Umbelliferae supposed to be identical with the plant koneion of the Greeks.. It is a tall, erect, branching biennial, with a smooth, shining, hollow stem usually marked with purple spots. It has elegant, much divided leaves which when bruised emit a nauseous odour. The flowers ar...
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hemlock

hemlock logo #20400[n] - poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium 2. [n] - large branching biennial herb native to Eurasia and Africa and adventive in North America having large fernlike leaves and white flowers 3. [n] - soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock 4. [n] - an evergreen tree
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hemlock

hemlock logo #20974 noun an evergreen tree
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hemlock

hemlock logo #21221Plant belonging to the carrot family, native to Europe, western Asia, and North Africa. It grows up to 2 m/6 ft high and produces delicate clusters of small white flowers. The whole plant, especially the root and fruit, is poisonous, causing paralysis of the nervous system. The name `hemlock` is also given to some North American and A...
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