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.”
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