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词汇 hemlock
释义 hemlock
noun
uk /ˈhem.lɒk/ us /ˈhem.lɑːk/
[ U ]
a type of poison made from a plant: 从毒芹中提炼的毒药
Socrates was made to drink hemlock after being condemned for corrupting the youth of Athens.
[ C or U ]
a plant with small white flowers and divided leaves from which the poison hemlock comes:
Beware, because this plant looks very similar to poisonous hemlock.
water hemlockWater hemlock is among Europe and North America's most toxic plants.
 
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[ C ](alsohemlock fir, hemlock spruce)
an evergreen tree (= one that never loses its leaves) that grows in North America, used for its wood:
The hiking trail winds past towering hemlocks and oaks.
the hemlock forests of North America
Herbal preparations involving the poisons hemlock or arsenic were relatively common in ancient medicine.
An extreme toxin such as hemlock or cyanide would have caused writhing and contortions.
The hemlocks, spruces and cedars that spread over southeast Alaska seem to go on forever.
From the trail, you can explore in any direction among mountain laurels, large hemlocks, and ferns.
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Common plants
Types of evergreen & coniferous tree
Examples from literature

When the philosopher Socrates was sentenced to death, he was allowed to drink the poison hemlock in the company of his friends. 

hemlock | American Dictionary


hemlock
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈhem·lɑk/
a poisonous plant that has small white flowers
Hemlock is also a type of evergreen tree or its wood.

Examples of hemlock


hemlock
On eastern hemlock, a similar pattern was observed for males of the island population, but 40% of the females made a fifth instar.
For males, larval development was significantly longer on sugar maple compared with the two coniferous species, but similar for balsam fir and eastern hemlock.
The hemlock looper is univoltine and overwinters in the egg stage.
His aim is simply to engage in some exercise and sheer fun by cutting down these hemlocks that he owns.
This redundancy enabled the hemlock to sprout a new 'trunk' when its first was destroyed.
Variation in the number of larval instars has been previously reported across the hemlock looper range.
Psocoptera were most abundant on western hemlock and grand fir, especially associated with staminate (male) flowers.
The same trend was observed for males of the island population but differences between balsam fir and eastern hemlock were not significantly different (table 2; fig. 4).
Now, it stands proudly in a row of hemlock trees, and to look at it you might not recognise its history unless you were a trained horticulturist.
Douglas fir, western hemlock and grand fir shared a number of herbivorous arthropods but were distinguished by a second principal component (fig. 1).
Does he also think it right that hemlock should have been the punishment?
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Some might wish that that solution was a dilute mixture of tranquillisers or hemlock.
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I would say that the other ingredients missing from his description are arsenic and old lace and a bit of hemlock.
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Things like stinging nettles, elders, thistles, hemlock and chickweed, for example, often thrived only because rabbits ate the edible plants which would otherwise have competed with them.
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Water hemlock has a large swelling at the stem base.
From
Wikipedia

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