cicuta bulbifera

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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Hemlock \Hem"lock\, n. [OE. hemeluc, humloc, AS. hemlic, hymlic.]

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. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

2.(Bot.) An evergreen tree common in North America (Abies Canadensis or Tsuga Canadensis); hemlock spruce. [1913 Webster]

The murmuring pines and the hemlocks.— Longfellow.[1913 Webster]

3.The wood or timber of the hemlock tree. [1913 Webster]

Ground hemlock, or Dwarf hemlock. See under Ground. [1913 Webster]

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