hemlock

1. Poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium (synset 114930236)
   "Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking hemlock"
   is a type of: phytotoxin, plant toxin - any substance produced by plants that is similar in its properties to extracellular bacterial toxin
2. 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 (synset 112956369)
   is a type of: poisonous plant - a plant that when touched or ingested in sufficient quantity can be harmful or fatal to an organism
   belongs to: conium, genus conium - small genus of highly toxic biennials: hemlock
   same as: california fern, conium maculatum, nebraska fern, poison hemlock, poison parsley, winter fern
3. Soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock (synset 111647815)
   is a type of: wood - the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees
   substance meronym: hemlock, hemlock tree - an evergreen tree
4. An evergreen tree (synset 111647619)
   is a type of: conifer, coniferous tree - any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones
   subtypes:

   • canadian hemlock, eastern hemlock, spruce pine, tsuga canadensis - common forest tree of the eastern United States and Canada; used especially for pulpwood
   • carolina hemlock, tsuga caroliniana - medium-sized evergreen of southeastern United States having spreading branches and widely diverging cone scales
   • black hemlock, mountain hemlock, tsuga mertensiana - large evergreen of western United States; wood much harder than Canadian hemlock
   • pacific hemlock, tsuga heterophylla, west coast hemlock, western hemlock - tall evergreen of western North America; commercially important timber tree
   belongs to: genus tsuga, tsuga - hemlock; hemlock fir; hemlock spruce
   substance holonym: hemlock - soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock
   same as: hemlock tree

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