In dictionaries:
western hemlock
Coniferous tree, native to North America.
eastern hemlock
Coniferous tree, native to Appalachians.
mountain hemlock
Coniferous tree native to mountains.
Hemlock Society
The (sometimes called Hemlock Society USA) an American right-to-die and assisted suicide advocacy organization which existed from 1980 to 2003, which took its name from the hemlock plant Conium maculatum, a highly poisonous herb in the carrot family, as a direct reference to the method by which the Athenian philosopher Socrates took his life in 399 BC, as described in Plato's Phaedo.
water hemlock
Highly toxic, resembles wild carrots.
poison hemlock
Toxic plant resembling wild carrots.
hemlock tree
Coniferous tree, poisonous, needle-bearing leaves.
hemlock looper
hemlock spruce
Coniferous tree, often mistaken identity.
Canadian hemlock
Coniferous tree native to Canada.
carolina hemlock
Coniferous tree native to Appalachians.
ground hemlock
A plant, Taxus canadensis.
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