hemlock

Definitions of hemlock in various dictionaries:

noun - poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium

noun - large branching biennial herb native to Eurasia and Africa and adventive in North America having large fernlike leaves and white flowers

noun - soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock

noun - an evergreen tree

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.

noun - a poisonous herb