poisonous plant vs hemlock

hemlock vs poisonous plant

poisonous plant and hemlock both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
poisonous plant	Yes	No	No	No
hemlock	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, hemlock is a hyponym of poisonous plant; that is, hemlock is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than poisonous plant:

poisonous plant: a plant that when touched or ingested in sufficient quantity can be harmful or fatal to an organism
hemlock: large branching biennial herb native to Eurasia and Africa and adventive in North America having large fernlike leaves and white flowers; usually found in damp habitats; all parts extremely poisonous

Other hyponyms of poisonous plant include aconite, baneberry, cohosh, herb Christopher, hellebore, dogbane, Nerium oleander, oleander, rose bay, climbing lily, creeping lily, gloriosa, Gloriosa superba, glory lily, common snowberry, snowberry, Symphoricarpos alba, waxberry, American holly, Christmas holly, poison ash, poison dogwood, poison sumac, Rhus vernix, Toxicodendron vernix, markweed, poison ivy, poison mercury, poison oak, Rhus radicans, Toxicodendron radicans, Rhus diversiloba, Toxicodendron diversilobum, western poison oak, eastern poison oak, Rhus quercifolia, Rhus toxicodenedron, Toxicodendron quercifolium, Chinese lacquer tree, Japanese lacquer tree, Japanese sumac, Japanese varnish tree, lacquer tree, Rhus verniciflua, Toxicodendron vernicifluum, varnish tree, lantana, Aethusa cynapium, fool's parsley, lesser hemlock, Cicuta verosa, water hemlock, spotted cowbane, spotted hemlock, spotted water hemlock, California fern, Conium maculatum, Nebraska fern, poison hemlock, poison parsley, winter fern, hemlock water dropwort, Oenanthe crocata, water dropwort, Oenanthe aquatica, water fennel.

poisonous plant (noun)	hemlock (noun)
a plant that when touched or ingested in sufficient quantity can be harmful or fatal to an organism	an evergreen tree, could refer to any one of a genus of conifers named Tsuga
	soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock
	large branching biennial herb native to Eurasia and Africa and adventive in North America having large fernlike leaves and white flowers; usually found in damp habitats; all parts extremely poisonous
	poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium

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