hemlock

Other forms of hemlock

plural

hemlocks·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hemlock

What does hemlock mean?

hemlock means "poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hemlock?

hemlock has 2 syllables: hem-lock. The stress falls on "hem". In IPA it is /ˈhɛmˌlɑk/.

What is another word for hemlock?

Close synonyms include poison hemlock, poison parsley, California fern, Nebraska fern, winter fern. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hemlock a common word?

hemlock is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with hemlock?

16 words rhyme with hemlock. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.