poison hemlock

Questions about poison hemlock

What is another word for poison hemlock?

It depends which poison hemlock you mean. In the sense “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”, the synonyms are hemlock, poison parsley, California fern, Nebraska fern, winter fern, Conium maculatum. Across all 1 sense there are 6 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of poison hemlock?

WordNet records no antonym for poison hemlock. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for poison hemlock come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of poison hemlock

• Full entry for poison hemlockAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for poison hemlockWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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