hemlock
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1. an evergreen tree (noun.plant)
hyponym | : | carolina hemlock, tsuga caroliniana, |
definition | : | medium-sized evergreen of southeastern United States having spreading branches and widely diverging cone scales (noun.plant) |
member meronym | : | genus tsuga, tsuga, |
definition | : | hemlock; hemlock fir; hemlock spruce (noun.plant) |
substance holonym | : | hemlock, |
definition | : | soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock (noun.plant) |
2. soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock (noun.plant)
hypernym | : | wood, |
definition | : | the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees (noun.substance) |
3. 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 (noun.plant)
hypernym | : | poisonous plant, |
definition | : | a plant that when touched or ingested in sufficient quantity can be harmful or fatal to an organism (noun.plant) |
member meronym | : | conium, genus conium, |
definition | : | small genus of highly toxic biennials: hemlock (noun.plant) |
4. poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium (noun.substance)
hypernym | : | phytotoxin, plant toxin, |
definition | : | any substance produced by plants that is similar in its properties to extracellular bacterial toxin (noun.substance) |
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