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water hemlock

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.86 in modern English

Syllables
wa-ter hem-lock
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A plant of any of the species in genus Cicuta, all highly poisonous and easily confused with other non-toxic forage plants.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

water hemlocks (plural)

Phrases

northern water hemlock

Synonyms

cowbane poison parsnip cicuta virosa

Questions

What does water hemlock mean?
A plant of any of the species in genus Cicuta, all highly poisonous and easily confused with other non-toxic forage plants.

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