hemlock(noun)

poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium

"Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking hemlock"

hemlock, poison hemlock, poison parsley, California fern, Nebraska fern, winter fern, Conium maculatum(noun)

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

hemlock(noun)

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

hemlock, hemlock tree(noun)

an evergreen tree

hemlock(Noun)

Any of several poisonous umbelliferous plants, of the genera Conium (Conium maculatum and Conium chaerophylloides) and Cicuta; the poison obtained from these plants.

hemlock(Noun)

Any of several coniferous trees, of the genus Tsuga, that grow in North America; the wood of such trees.

Hemlock(noun)

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

Hemlock(noun)

an evergreen tree common in North America (Abies, / Tsuga, Canadensis); hemlock spruce

Hemlock(noun)

the wood or timber of the hemlock tree

Hemlock

Any of several poisonous plants, commonly called poison hemlock, of the CICUTA or CONIUM genus. The hemlock tree (TSUGA) is completely unrelated being a coniferous tree of the pine family.