Hemlock (noun)
hem-lok
A highly poisonous European plant of the parsley family, with a purple-spotted stem, fernlike leaves, small white flowers, and an unpleasant smell.
Old English hymlice, hemlic, of unknown origin.
Example sentences
“No one suspected she’d laced it with hemlock.”
Boscage (noun) bos-kij a mass of trees or shrubs; wood, grove, or thicket. 1350–1400; Middle English boskage. Middle French boscage. (more…)
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