hemlock

Noun

• an evergreen tree

• soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock

• 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

• poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium
  • Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking hemlock
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  hemlock tree , poison hemlock , poison parsley , California fern , Nebraska fern , winter fern , Conium maculatum