hemlock

hem·lock /ˈhemlɒk $ -lɑːk/ noun [countableC, uncountableU]

HBPMDa very poisonous plant, or the poison that is made from it 毒芹；由毒芹提取的毒药

Examples from the Corpus

hemlock• Overhead, we lose count of eagles in singles and pairs, swooping along the tops of cedars, hemlock and spruce.• His legs were impaled with a thousand needles of pine and hemlock; hemlock cones and crabapple were strapped to his waist.• Rosemary Verey, creator of Barnsley House in the Cotswolds outlined how to turn his looming hemlocks into topiary.• No, no, they are not willing to drain that cup of hemlock.• Though my house was hidden behind a ridge of hemlock, I could see where Mill Creek twists through the yard.• Oil a recent visit, I checked the undersides of the branches of five-hundred-year-old hemlock trees hanging across a creek.• A few white pines and some hemlocks grow along the top and the sides of this esker.

Origin hemlock

Old English hemlic

Chinese

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Corpus

BNC: 39778 COCA: 17438

hemlock

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