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

[ Syn: poison hemlock , poison parsley , california fern , nebraska fern , winter fern , conium maculatum ]

soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock

an evergreen tree

[ Syn: hemlock tree ]