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Hemlock

//ˈhɛmˌlɒk// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Taylor Township, Howard County, Indiana.
  2. 2
    A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in Richland Township, Saginaw County, Michigan.
  3. 3
    A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in the town of Livonia, Livingston County, New York.
  4. 4
    A number of places in the United States:; A village in Perry County, Ohio.
  5. 5
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Tillamook County, Oregon.
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  1. 6
    A number of places in the United States:; A township in Columbia County, Pennsylvania.
  2. 7
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Floyd County, Virginia.
  3. 8
    A number of places in the United States:; Synonym of Stabler, Skamania County, Washington.
  4. 9
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia.
  5. 10
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Jackson County, West Virginia.
  6. 11
    A number of places in the United States:; A ghost town in the town of Warner, Clark County, Wisconsin.
Noun
  1. 1
    Any of the poisonous umbelliferous plants, of the genera; Conium, either Conium maculatum or Conium chaerophylloides. countable, uncountable

    "Have a tree or two the witches particularly like, such as the alder, larch, cypress and hemlock; then, to counteract any possible evil effects, there must be a holly, yew, hazel, elder, mountain ash or juniper."

  2. 2
    an evergreen tree, could refer to any one of a genus of conifers named Tsuga wordnet
  3. 3
    Any of the poisonous umbelliferous plants, of the genera; Cicuta (water hemlock). countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock wordnet
  5. 5
    Poison obtained from these Conium and Cicuta plants. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    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 wordnet
  2. 7
    Any of several coniferous trees, of the genus Tsuga, that grow in North America; the wood of such trees. countable, uncountable

    "The wind blows and the hemlocks wave their feathery leading shoots. Such a graceful profile, so elegant a tree."

  3. 8
    poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English hemlok, hemeluc, from Old English hemlīc, hymlīc m and hymlīce f (“hemlock, bryony, convolvulus”), of uncertain origin. speculative etymology Compare Old English hymele (“hop-vine, hops”), Old English humele (“bryony, widerton, hair moss, gold-hair, morning glory”), Danish and Swedish humle (“hops”), Icelandic humall (“hops”). Perhaps from Scythian, from Proto-Iranian *háwHmah (“ephedra; juice”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sáwHmas from Proto-Indo-European *sewh₁- (“to press out, extract”). ;cognates * (from Sarmato-Scythian *haumala) Ossetian хумӕллӕг (xumællæg, “hops”) * (from Sarmato-Scythian *hauma) Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬊𐬨𐬀 (haoma), Baluchi [script needed] (hum), Persian هوم (hôm)) * (from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sauma) Sanskrit सोम (soma)) More at suck.

Etymology 2

All places are presumably named after the North American tree, which is non-poisonous.

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