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Meanings of hemlock in English
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.
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cicuta Usage of hemlock in English
1
High up in the hemlock forests is the interesting Alpine three-toed woodpecker.
2
He hid in a thick hemlock-tree and as Reddy passed he shouted:
3
The western hemlock and Sitka spruce are the best for paper making.
4
I'd been down the hill and up the hemlock that day, anyway.
5
Black-green hemlock and spruce bordered the right of way on either hand.
6
Among them were a species of prune, the water-hemlock, and the strawberry.
7
They came in at last, with Destournier on an improvised hemlock litter.
8
So they hurried off to the hemlock woods where Solomon Owl lived.
9
But remember to touch your beaver where the hemlock boughs are low.
10
At last he concluded that we should have to fell the hemlock.
11
Being conveyed to prison, he was compelled to drink the fatal hemlock.
12
Forty-three years later Socrates, so charged, was condemned to drink the hemlock.
13
Not an insufficient dose of hemlock and honey or some two-day mushroom.
14
To sum up, hemlock lends itself to almost every form of management.
15
It was the old charge against Socrates come back-thehemlock was brewing.
16
Tear your love for this man from your heart, like poisonous hemlock.
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Hemlock through the time
Hemlock across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common