hemlock

English

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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 *haumala, a diminutive of *hauma (“ephedra; juice”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sauma from Proto-Indo-European *seue- (“to suck; juice”).

cognates

(from Proto-Germanic *humalaz, *humalōn) Old Norse humall, Middle Low German homele (from Sarmato-Scythian *haumala) Ossetian хумæллæг (xumællæg, “hops”) (from Sarmato-Scythian *hauma) Avestan [script?] (haoma)[script?], Baluchi [script?] (hum)[Arabic?], Persian هوم (hōm)) (from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sauma) Sanskrit सोम (soma)) More at suck.

Noun

hemlock (plural hemlocks)

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

Synonyms

• (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

• eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis)
• Carolina hemlock (Tsuga caroliniana)
• Taiwan 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

Translations

tree

• Catalan: tsuga f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鐵杉, 铁杉 (zh) (tiěshān), 毒草名 (zh) (dúcǎomíng)

• Czech: jedlovec m
• Danish: hemlock, skarntydegran
• Dutch: hemlockspar
• Esperanto: cugo
• Estonian: tsuuga
• Finnish: hemlokki (fi)

• French: pruche (fr) f
• German: Hemlocktanne f
• Japanese: ツガ (tsuga), 栂 (ja) (つが, tsuga)
• Norwegian: hemlokk
• Polish: choina
• Portuguese: tsuga f
• Russian: тсуга (ru) f (tsúga)
• Swedish: hemlockgran
• Ukrainian: тсуга f (tsúha)

poisonous plant of genus Conium

• Albanian: kukutë f
• Aromanian: cucutã f
• Catalan: cicuta (ca) f
• Czech: bolehlav m
• Danish: skarntyde c
• Dutch: scheerling
• Finnish: katko (fi), myrkkykatko (fi)
• French: ciguë (fr) f
• German: Schierling (de) m, (Conium maculatum) Gefleckter Schierling m
• Greek: κώνειο (el) n (kóneio)

• Hungarian: bürök (hu)
• Italian: cicuta f
• Japanese: ドクニンジン (dokuninjin)
• Polish: szczwół m
• Portuguese: cicuta f
• Romanian: cucută (ro)
• Russian: болиголов (ru) m (boligolóv)
• Scottish Gaelic: iteodha f
• Spanish: cicuta f
• Volapük: (Conium) konid, (Conium maculatum) stenöfakonid, konidavenen (poison)

poisonous plant of genus Cicuta — see cowbane