poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium;
"Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking hemlock"
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
soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock
an evergreen tree
经典引文
A drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.
