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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.
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An evergreen tree common in North America (Abies Canadensis or Tsuga Canadensis); hemlock spruce.
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Hemlokki Hemlock A coniferous (softwood) tree species.
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A straight-grained species of softwood, like fir or spruce, used in door construction, usually of a lighter color than fir.
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poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium; "Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking hemlock"
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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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Tsuga Tupelo Nyssa
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1) Any of several species of wetland herb of the genus Circuta. Represented in the North Country by two species, Bulb Bearing Water Hemlock ( Cicuta bulbifera) and Spotted Water Hemlock ( Cicuta maculata), both of which are extremely poisonous. 2) In other parts of the North Country, though not the BWCA, the coniferous tree Tsuga canadensis. Kagagiwanj in the Ojibwe.
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