hemlock
英 ['heml?k]
美['h?mlɑk]
- n. 鐵杉；毒芹屬植物；毒胡蘿卜
- n. (Hemlock)人名；(英)赫姆洛克
英英釋意
- 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
- 3. soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock
- 4. an evergreen tree