hem·lock /ˈhɛmˌlɑk/
 毒胡蘿蔔,鐵杉


 hem·lock /ˈhɛmˌlɑk/ 名詞
 斑點毒芹,鐵杉


 Hem·lock n.
 1. Bot. The name of several poisonous umbelliferous herbs having finely cut leaves and small white flowers, as the Cicuta maculata, Cicuta bulbifera, and Cicuta virosa, and the Conium maculatum. See Conium.
 Note: ☞ The potion of hemlock administered to Socrates is by some thought to have been a decoction of Cicuta virosa, or water hemlock, by others, of Conium maculatum.
 2. Bot. An evergreen tree common in North America (Abies Canadensis or  Tsuga Canadensis); hemlock spruce.
    The murmuring pines and the hemlocks.   --Longfellow.
 3. The wood or timber of the hemlock tree.
 Ground hemlock, or Dwarf hemlock. See under Ground.

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 hemlock
      n 1: poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus
           Conium; "Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking
           hemlock"
      2: large branching biennial herb native to Eurasia and Africa
         and adventive in North America having large fernlike
         leaves and white flowers; usually found in damp habitats;
         all parts extremely poisonous [syn: poison hemlock, {poison
         parsley, California fern, Nebraska fern, winter fern,
          Conium maculatum]
      3: soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the
         western hemlock
      4: an evergreen tree [syn: hemlock tree]


 Hemlock
    (1.) Heb. rosh (Hos. 10:4; rendered "gall" in Deut. 29:18;
    32:32; Ps. 69:21; Jer. 9:15; 23:15; "poison," Job 20:16;
    "venom," Deut. 32:33). "Rosh is the name of some poisonous plant
    which grows quickly and luxuriantly; of a bitter taste, and
    therefore coupled with wormwood (Deut. 29:18; Lam. 3:19). Hence
    it would seem to be not the hemlock cicuta, nor the colocynth or
    wild gourd, nor lolium darnel, but the poppy so called from its
    heads" (Gesenius, Lex.).

      (2.) Heb. la'anah, generally rendered "wormwood" (q.v.), Deut.
    29:18, Text 17; Prov. 5:4; Jer. 9:15; 23:15. Once it is rendered
    "hemlock" (Amos 6:12; R.V., "wormwood"). This Hebrew word is
    from a root meaning "to curse," hence the accursed.