hemlock

English

Conium maculatum, one of the umbellifers called hemlock

Tsuga heterophylla, one of the conifers called hemlock

Etymology

From Middle English hemlok, hemeluc, from Old English hymlīc, hymlīce (“hemlock, bryony,convulvus”, literally “hops-like”), from hymele (“hop-vine”), from Proto-Germanic *humalaz, *humalōn, of unknown origin. Perhaps from Scythian, from *háwmah (“ephedra; juice”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sáwmas from Proto-Indo-European *sew- (“to press out, extract”).

cognates

• (from Proto-Germanic *humalaz, *humalōn) Old Norse humall, Middle Low German homele
• (from Sarmato-Scythian *haumala) Ossetian хумӕллӕг (xumællæg, “hops”)
• (from Sarmato-Scythian *hauma) Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬊𐬨𐬀 (haoma), Baluchi [script needed] (hum), Persian هوم (hōm))
• (from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sauma) Sanskrit सोम (soma))

More at suck.

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛmˌlɒk/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter)

  Audio (US):

  (file)

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter)

  Audio (CAN):

  (file)

Noun

hemlock (countable and uncountable, plural hemlocks)

1. Any of the poisonous umbelliferous plants, of the genera
   1. Conium, either Conium maculatum or .
   2. Cicuta, water hemlock plant.
2. The poison obtained from these Conium and Cicuta plants.
4. Any of several coniferous trees, of the genus Tsuga, that grow in North America; the wood of such trees.

Synonyms

• (Conium): beaver poison, devil's porridge, herb bennet, musquash root, poison hemlock, poison parsley, spotted corobane, spotted hemlock Conium maculatum; ;

Derived terms

• eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis)
• Carolina hemlock (Tsuga caroliniana)
• Taiwan hemlock, Chinese hemlock ()
• northern Japanese hemlock ()
• Himalayan hemlock ()
• Forrest's hemlock ()
• western hemlock ()
• southern Japanese hemlock ()
• mountain hemlock ()
• poison hemlock
• hemlock woolly adelgid

Translations

tree

• Catalan: tsuga f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鐵杉／铁杉 (zh) (tiěshān), 铁杉 (zh) (tiěshān)

• Czech: jedlovec m
• Danish: hemlock, skarntydegran
• Dutch: hemlockspar
• Esperanto: cugo
• Estonian: tsuuga
• Finnish: hemlokki (fi)
• French: pruche (fr) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Hemlocktanne f, Schierlingstanne f
• Japanese: ツガ (tsuga), 栂 (ja) (つが, tsuga)
• Norwegian: hemlokk
• Polish: choina (pl)
• Portuguese: tsuga m
• Russian: тсу́га (ru) f (tsúga)
• Spanish: falso abeto m
• Swedish: hemlockgran
• Ukrainian: тсу́га f (tsúha)

poisonous plant of genus Conium

• Albanian: kukutë f, magunë
• Aromanian: cucutã f
• Belarusian: балігало́ў m (balihalóŭ), о́мег m (ómjeh), аме́жнік m (amjéžnik)
• Bulgarian: бучинѝш m (bučinìš), мангу̀на (mangùna), магу̀на f (magùna)
• Catalan: cicuta (ca) f
• Czech: bolehlav (cs) m
• Danish: skarntyde c
• Dutch: scheerling (nl)
• Finnish: katko (fi), myrkkykatko (fi)
• French: ciguë (fr) f
• German: Schierling (de) m, (Conium maculatum) Gefleckter Schierling m
• Greek: κώνειο (el) n (kóneio), κιρκούτα f (kirkoúta)

  Ancient: κώνειον n (kṓneion)

  Byzantine: μαγγοῦνα f (mangoûna), μαγκοῦνα f (mankoûna), μαγγοῦτα (mangoûta), μαγκοῦτα (mankoûta)

• Hebrew: רֹאשׁ (he) m (rosh)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: bürök (hu)
• Italian: cicuta (it) f
• Japanese: ドクニンジン (dokuninjin)
• Latin: cicūta f
• Polish: szczwół m
• Portuguese: cicuta (pt) f
• Romanian: cucută (ro)
• Russian: болиголо́в (ru) m (boligolóv), оме́г m (omég), оме́га m (oméga), оме́жник m (oméžnik)
• Scottish Gaelic: iteodha f
• Spanish: cicuta f
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: بالدران‎ (baldıran)

  Modern Turkish: baldıran (tr)

• Ukrainian: болиголо́в m (bolyholóv), оме́г m (oméh), оме́жник m (oméžnyk)
• Volapük: (Conium) konid, (Conium maculatum) stenöfakonid, konidavenen (poison)

poisonous plant of genus Cicuta — see cowbane