spotted water hemlock

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   tall biennial water hemlock of northeastern North America having purple-spotted stems and clusters of extremely poisonous tuberous roots resembling small sweet potatoes

   Synonymsspotted cowbanespotted hemlock

   Broaderpoisonous plant

   Part ofCicuta

Questions about spotted water hemlock

What does spotted water hemlock mean?

spotted water hemlock means "tall biennial water hemlock of northeastern North America having purple-spotted stems and clusters of extremely poisonous tuberous roots resembling small sweet potatoes".

What is another word for spotted water hemlock?

Close synonyms include spotted cowbane, spotted hemlock. 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 spotted water hemlock a common word?

spotted water 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.