hemlock

Meaning

Noun

• Any of the poisonous umbelliferous plants, of the genera
• The poison obtained from these Conium and Cicuta plants.
• Any of several coniferous trees, of the genus Tsuga, that grow in North America; the wood of such trees.

Related

Similar words

• , devil's bread, devil's porridge, herb bennet, poison hemlock, poison parsley, Conium maculatum, Conium chaerophylloides (species)
• beaver poison, cowbane, musquash root, poison parsnip, spotted corobane, water hemlock

Origin

• From Middle English hemlok, hemeluc, from Old English hymlīc, hymlīce, from hymele, from Proto-Germanic *humalaz, *humalōn, of unknown origin. Perhaps from Scythian, from *háwmah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sáwmas from Proto-Indo-European *sew- ("to press out, extract").
• Old Norse humall, Middle Low German homele
• Ossetian хумӕллӕг ("hops")
• Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬊𐬨𐬀, Baluchi, Persian هوم)
• Sanskrit सोम)
• More at suck.