poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium;
"Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking hemlock"
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
soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock
an evergreen tree
例句
用作名词 (n.)
Here is a beech by the side of a hemlock, with three pines at hand. 这儿有株山毛榉和一株铁杉长在一起,旁边还有三株松树。
The man was poisoned with hemlock. 这个人被用从毒芹提取的毒药毒死了。
He was condemned to drink a cup of hemlock. 判处他喝一杯毒汁。
经典引文
A drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.