资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Musquash \Mus"quash\, n. [American Indian name.] (Zo["o]l.)
See {Muskrat}.
{Musquash root} (Bot.), an umbelliferous plant ({Cicuta
maculata}), having a poisonous root. See {Water hemlock}.
Hemlock \Hem"lock\, n. [OE. hemeluc, humloc, AS. hemlic,
hymlic.]
1. (Bot.) The name of several poisonous umbelliferous herbs
having finely cut leaves and small white flowers, as the
{Cicuta maculata}, {bulbifera}, and {virosa}, and the
{Conium maculatum}. See {Conium}.
Note: The potion of hemlock administered to Socrates is by
some thought to have been a decoction of {Cicuta
virosa}, or water hemlock, by others, of {Conium
maculatum}.
2. (Bot.) An evergreen tree common in North America ({Abies,
or Tsuga, Canadensis}); hemlock spruce.
The murmuring pines and the hemlocks. --Longfellow.
3. The wood or timber of the hemlock tree.
{Ground hemlock}, or {Dwarf hemlock}. See under {Ground}.
Cowbane \Cow"bane`\ (kou"b[=a]n`), n. (Bot.)
A poisonous umbelliferous plant; in England, the {Cicuta
virosa}; in the United States, the {Cicuta maculata} and the
{Archemora rigida}. See {Water hemlock}.