Hemlock /(?)/

Hem·lock

Hemlock

n.
  1. The name of several poisonous umbelliferous herbs having finely cut leaves and small white flowers, as the Cicuta maculata, Cicuta bulbifera, and Cicuta virosa, and the Conium maculatum. See Conium. (Bot.)
  2. An evergreen tree common in North America (Abies Canadensis [or] Tsuga Canadensis); hemlock spruce. (Bot.)
    The murmuring pines and the hemlocks.
  3. The wood or timber of the hemlock tree.

Phrases & Compounds
Ground hemlock
See under Ground.