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Noun
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(n)
hemlock
(poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium)
"Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking hemlock"
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(n)
hemlock
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poison hemlock
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poison parsley
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California fern
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Nebraska fern
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winter fern
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Conium maculatum
(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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(n)
hemlock
(soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock)
substance holonym
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(n)
hemlock
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hemlock tree
(an evergreen tree)
direct hypernym
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inherited hypernym
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sister term
S:
(n)
hemlock
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hemlock tree
(an evergreen tree)
direct hyponym
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full hyponym
S:
(n)
eastern hemlock
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Canadian hemlock
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spruce pine
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Tsuga canadensis
(common forest tree of the eastern United States and Canada; used especially for pulpwood)
S:
(n)
Carolina hemlock
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Tsuga caroliniana
(medium-sized evergreen of southeastern United States having spreading branches and widely diverging cone scales)
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(n)
mountain hemlock
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black hemlock
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Tsuga mertensiana
(large evergreen of western United States; wood much harder than Canadian hemlock)
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(n)
western hemlock
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Pacific hemlock
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west coast hemlock
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Tsuga heterophylla
(tall evergreen of western North America; commercially important timber tree)
member holonym
substance meronym
direct hypernym
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inherited hypernym
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sister term