hemlock
Any of the poisonous umbelliferous plants, of the genera
Other meanings
Conium, either Conium maculatum or Conium chaerophylloides.
Cicuta (water hemlock).
A kind of
- plant toxin
Word history
From Old English "hemlīc".
Where this comes from
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