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Meaning of 'hemlock' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Hemlock [ 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.
- An evergreen tree common in North America (Abies, / Tsuga, Canadensis); hemlock spruce.
- The wood or timber of the hemlock tree.

Meaning of 'hemlock' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . hemlock [ n]
Meaning (1):
- poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium
Example in sentence:
  • Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking hemlock

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