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hemlock

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hemlock

Plant belonging to the carrot family, native to Europe, western Asia, and North Africa. It grows up to 2 m/6 ft high and produces delicate clusters of small white flowers. The whole plant, especially the root and fruit, is poisonous, causing paralysis of the nervous system. The name ‘hemlock’ is also given to some North American and Asiatic conifers (genus Tsuga) belonging to the pine family. (Conium maculatum, family Umbelliferae.)



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I should be obliged if you would gather some hemlock leaves and send them to me.
An Unsocial Socialist by Shaw, George Bernard View in context
A narrow current rushed impetuously from its bosom at the open place we have mentioned, and was to be traced for miles, as it wound its way toward the south through the real valley, by its borders of hemlock and pine, and by the vapor which arose from its warmer surface into the chill atmosphere of the hills.
The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
The whole coast is described as remarkably rugged and mountainous; with dense forests of hemlock, spruce, white and red cedar, cotton-wood, white oak, white and swamp ash, willow, and a few walnut.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
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