(n.) 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.
(n.) An evergreen tree common in North America (Abies, / Tsuga, Canadensis); hemlock spruce.
(n.) The wood or timber of the hemlock tree.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was no difference in LC50 between the two strains to larvae of spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana), gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar), eastern hemlock looper (Lambdina fiscellaria fiscellaria), and whitemarked tussock moth (Orgyia leucostigma), whether expressed as total alkaline soluble protein, activated toxin protein, or International Units as determined by bioassay against Trichoplusia ni.
(2) Based on the data presented, we speculate that gamma-coniceine is the teratogenic alkaloid in the poison hemlock fed to the gilts.
(3) On Saturday morning, the royal couple will go through the near-obligatory tree-planting ceremony at the governor-general's residence – a Canadian hemlock.
(4) Hemlock habitat is sparse and focal but evidently increases winter survival of mice, and thus possibly results in increased infection rates in mice.
(5) Here we report our experience with these clinical findings, which we frequently observe in accidental hemlock poisoning.
(6) Hemlock water dropwort (Oenanthe crocata) is probably the most poisonous plant in the British Isles.
(7) A 54-year-old man had a severe case of cicutoxin poisoning following the ingestion of water hemlock (Cicuta maculate).
(8) Significantly more mice were captured and significantly more isolations made from hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) habitat than from deciduous species forest.
(9) Clinical signs of Conium maculatum toxicosis abated after the turkeys were removed from their range, which was infested with poison hemlock.
(10) Poisoning of cattle by water hemlock roots is a common occurrence.
(11) Fetal movement in pregnant ewes gavaged with Conium maculatum (poison-hemlock) was reduced significantly, but temporarily.
(12) Three piperidine alkaloid containing plants, Conium maculatum (poison-hemlock), Nicotiana glauca (tree tobacco) and Lupinus formosus (lunara lupine), induced multiple congenital contractures (MCC) and palatoschisis in goat kids when their dams were gavaged with the plant during gestation days 30-60.
(13) Poison-hemlock (Conium maculatum), wild tree tobacco (Nicotiana glauca), and lunara lupine (Lupinus formosus) all contain piperidine alkaloids and induce fetal malformations, including multiple congenital contractures and cleft palate in livestock.
(14) Cattle in two herds developed signs of bloating, increased salivation and lacrimation, depression, respiratory distress, ataxia, and death after ingestion of hay that contained large amounts of poison hemlock (Conium maculatum).
(15) Necropsy revealed numerous seeds identified as seeds from Conium maculatum (poison hemlock) within the crop, proventriculus, and gizzard.
(16) Poison-hemlock also causes skeletal defects in the offspring of cattle, pigs and sheep and cleft palate in pigs when ingested during specific periods of gestation.
(17) The book and the public response it engendered can not be understood without exploring the Hemlock Society and the political agenda which both the Society and book advance.
(18) Hostel is undoubtedly the most unpleasant film I have ever seen,” he said, while Roth’s Netflix series Hemlock Grove “made An American Werewolf in London look like Mary Poppins”.
(19) We report two adults who ingested hemlock water dropwort roots, having mistaken them for wild parsnip.
(20) The teratogenicity of poison hemlock depends on the alkaloid concentration and content.
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Definition:
(n.) The hollow stalk of an umbelliferous plant, such as the cow parsnip or the hemlock.