hemlock   (Sound)

The noun hemlock has 4 senses

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


• hemlock, poison hemlock, poison parsley, California fern, Nebraska fern, winter fern, 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)


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


• hemlock, hemlock tree -- (an evergreen tree)