English-Thai Dictionary

hemlock

N พืช จำพวก  Conium maculatum เป็น พืช มีพิษช นิดหนึ่ง ใช้ เป็น ยากด ประสาท  poison hemlock phud-jam-pueak

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HEMLOCK

n. 1. A plant of the genus Conium, whose leaves and root are poisonous. Also, the Cicuta maculata.
2. A tree of the genus Pinus, an evergreen.
3. A poison, an infusion or decoction of the poisonous plant.
Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

HEMLOCK

Hem "lock, n. Etym: [OE. hemeluc, humloc, AS. hemlic, hymlic.]

 

1. (Bot. )

 

Defn: The name of several poisonous umbelliferous herbs having finely cut leaves and small white flowers, as the Cicuta maculata, bulbifera, and virosa, and the Conium maculatum. See Conium.

 

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.

 

2. (Bot. )

 

Defn: An evergreen tree common in North America (Abies, or Tsuga, Canadensis ); hemlock spruce. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks. Longfellow.

 

3. The wood or timber of the hemlock tree. Ground hemlock, or Dwarf hemlock. See under Ground.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

hemlock

hem lock |ˈhemˌläk ˈhɛmˌlɑk | ▶noun 1 a highly poisonous European plant of the parsley family, with a purple-spotted stem, fernlike leaves, small white flowers, and an unpleasant smell. [Conium maculatum, family Umbelliferae. ] • a sedative or poisonous potion obtained from this plant. Such a potion was said to have been used to poison Socrates. 2 (also hemlock fir or spruce ) a coniferous North American tree with dark green foliage that is said to smell like hemlock when crushed, grown chiefly for timber and pulp production, and also grown in Europe as an ornamental. [Genus Tsuga, family Pinaceae: several species, in particular eastern hemlock (T. canadensis ) and Carolina hemlock (T. caroliniana ).] ORIGIN Old English hymlice, hemlic, of unknown origin.

 

Oxford Dictionary

hemlock

hem |lock |ˈhɛmlɒk | ▶noun 1 a highly poisonous European plant of the parsley family, with a purple-spotted stem, fern-like leaves, small white flowers, and an unpleasant smell. ●Conium maculatum, family Umbelliferae. • [ mass noun ] a sedative or poisonous potion obtained from the hemlock. 2 (also hemlock fir or spruce ) a coniferous North American tree with dark green foliage which is said to smell like hemlock when crushed, grown chiefly for timber. ●Genus Tsuga, family Pinaceae: several species. ORIGIN Old English hymlice, hemlic, of unknown origin.

 

Duden Dictionary

Hemlocktanne

Hem lock tan ne Substantiv, feminin , die |H e mlocktanne |englisch hemlock = Schierling, Herkunft ungeklärt (in Asien und Nordamerika heimische ) Kiefer mit je zwei silbrigen Streifen auf der Unterseite der Nadeln und kleinen, meist kugelförmigen Zapfen; Tsuga

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

hemlock

hem lock /hémlɑk |-lɔk /名詞 C U 〘植 〙ドクニンジン ; ドクニンジンから作った毒薬 .