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English[edit]

Conium maculatum, one of the umbellifers called hemlock

Tsuga heterophylla, one of the conifers called hemlock
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English hemlok, hemeluc, from Old English hymlīc, hymlīce (“hemlock, bryony, convolvulus”, 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[edit]
Noun[edit]
hemlock (countable and uncountable, plural hemlocks)
- Any of the poisonous umbelliferous plants, of the genera
- Conium, either Conium maculatum or Conium chaerophylloides.
- Cicuta, water hemlock plant.
- The poison obtained from these Conium and Cicuta plants.
- Any of several coniferous trees, of the genus Tsuga, that grow in North America; the wood of such trees.
Synonyms[edit]
- (Conium): beaver poison, devil's porridge, herb bennet, musquash root, poison hemlock, poison parsley, spotted corobane, spotted hemlock Conium maculatum; Conium chaerophylloides; Conium conium maculatum
Derived terms[edit]
- eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis)
- Canadian hemlock (Tsuga canadensis)
- Carolina hemlock (Tsuga caroliniana)
- Taiwan hemlock, Chinese hemlock (Tsuga chinensis)
- northern Japanese hemlock (Tsuga diversifolia)
- Himalayan hemlock (Tsuga dumosa)
- Forrest's hemlock (Tsuga forrestii)
- western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla)
- southern Japanese hemlock (Tsuga sieboldii)
- mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana)
- poison hemlock (Conium maculatum)
- hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae)
- hemlock water parsnip (Sium suave)
Translations[edit]
tree
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poisonous plant of genus Conium
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poisonous plant of genus Cicuta — see cowbane
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