hemlock
noun
a poisonous plant, Conium maculatum, of the parsley family, having purple-spotted stems, finely divided leaves, and umbels of small white flowers, used medicinally as a powerful sedative.
hemlocks
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pluralof hemlock.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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From the trailhead, you’ll climb through a forest of cedars and hemlocks.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2023
Eastern hemlocks are an ecologically important tree species found from eastern Canada to the Great Lakes states and south along the entire Appalachian mountain range.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2023
No matter that I’m allergic to almost everything: resiny hemlocks, sweet clover, vanilla-scented bedstraw and almondy meadowsweet.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2022
The family has no yard—the hemlocks grow right to the door.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 10, 2022
Mr. Crow had entered into a sort of border war with Bob Timmons, his neighbor to the north, claiming that Bob’s grove of western hemlocks actually grew on his property.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
