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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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.
1 The drawing-room was festooned with evergreens and winter ferns , wound here and there with streamers of various-colored ribbons.
1 Of poison hemlock , seeds are imported from ten to twenty thousand pounds annually.
2 It's poison hemlock , the First said.
3 But the real danger is posed by relatives like water hemlock, poison hemlock , giant hogweed, and cow parsnip.
4 The ancients were familiar with several of its peculiar properties, as they knew of the closely allied poison hemlock .
5 The children had made the fatal mistake of confusing the lacy foliage of parsley with that of poison hemlock .
6 Poison hemlock , a plant in the carrot family, is so toxic that it is known in Scotland as "deid men's oatmeal."
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