different between conium vs hemlock

English

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

conium (plural coniums)

1. Any of the species in the genus Conium of poisonous perennial herbaceous flowering plants.

Synonyms

• poison hemlock

Translations

Anagrams

• comuni, muonic

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (k?neion).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ko??ni?.um/, [ko??ni????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ko?ni.um/, [k??ni?um]

Noun

c?n?um n (genitive c?n??); second declension

1. hemlock

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Descendants

• ? Translingual: Conium

References

• conium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• conium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

From Middle English hemlok, hemeluc, from Old English hyml?c, hyml?ce (“hemlock, bryony, convolvulus”, literally “hops-like”), from hymele (“hop-vine”), from Proto-Germanic *humalaz, *humal?n, of unknown origin. Perhaps from Scythian, from *háwmah (“ephedra; juice”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sáwmas from Proto-Indo-European *sew- (“to press out, extract”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?m?l?k/

Noun

hemlock (countable and uncountable, plural hemlocks)

1. Any of the poisonous umbelliferous plants, of the genera
   1. Conium, either Conium maculatum or Conium chaerophylloides.
   2. Cicuta, water hemlock plant.
2. The poison obtained from these Conium and Cicuta plants.
4. Any of several coniferous trees, of the genus Tsuga, that grow in North America; the wood of such trees.

Synonyms

• (Conium):, devil's bread, devil's porridge, herb bennet, poison hemlock, poison parsley, Conium maculatum, Conium chaerophylloides
• (Cicuta): beaver poison, cowbane, musquash root, poison parsnip, spotted corobane, water hemlock

Derived terms

• eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis)
• Canadian hemlock (Tsuga canadensis)
• Carolina hemlock (Tsuga caroliniana)
• Taiwan hemlock, Chinese hemlock (Tsuga chinensis)
• northern Japanese hemlock (Tsuga diversifolia)
• Himalayan hemlock (Tsuga dumosa)
• Forrest's hemlock (Tsuga forrestii)
• western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla)
• southern Japanese hemlock (Tsuga sieboldii)
• mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana)
• poison hemlock (Conium maculatum)
• hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae)
• hemlock water parsnip (Sium suave)

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