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hemlock

English

  1. 🔊 an evergreen tree
  2. 🔊 soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock
  3. 🔊 large branching biennial herb native to Eurasia and Africa and adventive in North America having large fernlike leaves and white flowers
  4. 🔊 poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium
    “Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking hemlock”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 perejil de perro hemlock

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