hemlock
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium
Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking hemlock
Types & categories
- plant toxin hypernym
Sense 2 noun
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
Types & categories
- poisonous plant hypernym
Parts & wholes
- Conium member holonym
Sense 3 noun
soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock
Types & categories
- wood hypernym
Parts & wholes
- hemlock tree substance holonym
Sense 4 noun
an evergreen tree
Types & categories
- conifer hypernym
- spruce pine hyponym
- Carolina hemlock hyponym
- mountain hemlock hyponym
- western hemlock hyponym
Parts & wholes
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | plant toxin |
| 2 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | Conium |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | poisonous plant |
| 3 | substance holonym | Parts & wholes | hemlock tree |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | wood |
| 4 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | Tsuga |
| 4 | substance meronym | Parts & wholes | hemlock |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | conifer |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | spruce pine |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | Carolina hemlock |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | mountain hemlock |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | western hemlock |