Noun
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an evergreen tree
- hemlock tree -
soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock
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large branching biennial herb native to Eurasia and Africa and adventive in North America having large fernlike leaves and white flowers
usually found in damp habitats
all parts extremely poisonous
- poison hemlock - poison parsley - california fern - nebraska fern - winter fern - conium maculatum -
poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium
"Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking hemlock"