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.