poison hemlock

Questions about poison hemlock

What does poison hemlock mean?

poison hemlock means "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".

What is another word for poison hemlock?

Close synonyms include 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 poison hemlock a common word?

poison hemlock is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.