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.”
Favonian (adj) fav-oh-nee-un Of or relating to the west wind./ Mild or favorable; propitious. 1650–60; Latin Favōniānus. See Favonius, -an. foehn (more…)
