hemlock

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of the poisonous umbelliferous plants, of the genera; Conium, either Conium maculatum or Conium chaerophylloides. countable,uncountable
    — Have a tree or two the witches particularly like, such as the alder, larch, cypress and hemlock; then, to counteract any possible evil effects, there must be a holly, yew, hazel, elder, mountain ash or juniper.
  2. Any of the poisonous umbelliferous plants, of the genera; Cicuta (water hemlock). countable,uncountable
  3. Poison obtained from these Conium and Cicuta plants. countable,uncountable
  4. Any of several coniferous trees, of the genus Tsuga, that grow in North America; the wood of such trees. countable,uncountable
    — The wind blows and the hemlocks wave their feathery leading shoots. Such a graceful profile, so elegant a tree.

词形变化

hemlocks plural

词汇关系

近义词
devil's bread devil's porridge herb bennet poison hemlock poison parsley Conium maculatum Conium chaerophylloides
衍生词
Canadian hemlock Carolina hemlock Chinese hemlock eastern hemlock Forrest's hemlock gosh all hemlock ground hemlock hemlock leather hemlock parsley hemlock water parsnip hemlock woolly adelgid hemlocky Himalayan hemlock mountain hemlock northern Japanese hemlock Patton's hemlock poison hemlock southern Japanese hemlock Taiwan hemlock western hemlock

词源

From Middle English hemlok, hemeluc, from Old English hemlīc, hymlīc m and hymlīce f (“hemlock, bryony, convolvulus”), of uncertain origin.
speculative etymology
Compare Old English hymele (“hop-vine, hops”), Old English humele (“bryony, widerton, hair moss, gold-hair, morning glory”), Danish and Swedish humle (“hops”), Icelandic humall (“hops”). Perhaps from Scythian, from Proto-Iranian *háwHmah (“ephedra; juice”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sáwHmas from Proto-Indo-European *sewh₁- (“to press out, extract”).
;cognates
* (from Sarmato-Scythian *haumala) Ossetian хумӕллӕг (xumællæg, “hops”)
* (from Sarmato-Scythian *hauma) Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬊𐬨𐬀 (haoma), Baluchi [script needed] (hum), Persian هوم (hôm))
* (from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sauma) Sanskrit सोम (soma))
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