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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Wa·ter hem·lock Bot (a) A poisonous umbelliferous plant (Cicuta virosa) of Europe; also, any one of several plants of that genus.  (b) A poisonous plant (Œnanthe crocata) resembling the above.
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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Cow·bane n. Bot. A poisonous umbelliferous plant; in England, the Cicuta virosa; in the United States, the Cicuta maculata and the Archemora rigida. See Water hemlock.
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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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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