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Definition of Lesser hemlock
1. Noun. European weed naturalized in America that resembles parsley but causes nausea and poisoning when eaten.
Group relationships: Aethusa, Genus Aethusa
Generic synonyms: Poisonous Plant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lesser Hemlock
Literary usage of Lesser hemlock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1883)
"Another fact which M. Tanret has observed in the chemical examination of the
lesser hemlock is that the malic acid so abundant in the roots is in great part ..."
2. The British Journal of Homoeopathy edited by John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell (1875)
"The lesser hemlock was individualised for the first time by the botanists of the
Renaissance period. Tragus was the first to speak of it, ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1838)
"... name of lesser hemlock. " The etymology of the word hemlock is obscure.
I consider that the word is derived from its ill smell, and consists of the ..."
4. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1912)
"£thusa Cynapium, the lesser hemlock or fool's parsley, appears to contain an
energetic poison, though this has been disputed by Harley (St. Thomas's ..."
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