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HEMLOCK

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An evergreen tree

Synonyms:

hemlock; hemlock tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("hemlock" is a kind of...):

conifer; coniferous tree (any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones)

Meronyms (substance of "hemlock"):

hemlock (soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hemlock"):

Canadian hemlock; eastern hemlock; spruce pine; Tsuga canadensis (common forest tree of the eastern United States and Canada; used especially for pulpwood)

Carolina hemlock; Tsuga caroliniana (medium-sized evergreen of southeastern United States having spreading branches and widely diverging cone scales)

black hemlock; mountain hemlock; Tsuga mertensiana (large evergreen of western United States; wood much harder than Canadian hemlock)

Pacific hemlock; Tsuga heterophylla; west coast hemlock; western hemlock (tall evergreen of western North America; commercially important timber tree)

Holonyms ("hemlock" is a member of...):

genus Tsuga; Tsuga (hemlock; hemlock fir; hemlock spruce)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("hemlock" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Holonyms ("hemlock" is a substance of...):

hemlock; hemlock tree (an evergreen tree)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

California fern; Conium maculatum; hemlock; Nebraska fern; poison hemlock; poison parsley; winter fern

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("hemlock" is a kind of...):

poisonous plant (a plant that when touched or ingested in sufficient quantity can be harmful or fatal to an organism)

Holonyms ("hemlock" is a member of...):

Conium; genus Conium (small genus of highly toxic biennials: hemlock)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium

Example:

Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking hemlock

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("hemlock" is a kind of...):

phytotoxin; plant toxin (any substance produced by plants that is similar in its properties to extracellular bacterial toxin)

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