Water hemlock: Definition and part of speech

Water hemlock

  1. A poisonous plant (/nanthe crocata) resembling the above.
  2. A poisonous umbelliferous plant (Cicuta virosa) of Europe; also, any one of several plants of that genus.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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