hemlocks in English

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.
They are the tap roots of a plant in the umbelliferae family which includes parsley, cow parsley and hemlock .
2
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.
Many of the needle evergreens including yew, arborvitae, hemlock , and incense cedar make fine hedges.
noun
    poison hemlock

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1. With Burdocks, Hemlocks, Nettles, Cuckoo-flowers.' Also in As You Like It: ROSALIND

2. The health of Maryland’s hemlocks, and the associated ecosystems, is being threatened by the hemlock woolly Adelgid (HWA)

3. Colicroot resembles the Water Hemlocks in the manner that the flowers are strung out along the stem

4. The hemlock woolly Adelgid, or HWA, is an invasive, aphid-like insect that attacks North American hemlocks

5. Hemlock woolly Adelgid was accidentally brought to eastern North America and is a threat to eastern hemlocks

6. Native to Asia, the hemlock woolly Adelgid, or HWA, is an invasive, aphid-like insect that attacks North American hemlocks

7. ‘Over the ledge lies an Atlantic of vapor without sail or shore, and through the hemlocks on North mountain the wind Brattles like a hurricane.’ ‘It is a lively sound, a busy tinkling, the incessant brattling and from time to time rushing, crashing sound of this falling ice, and trees suddenly erecting themselves when relieved of their