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ground hemlock

noun

  1. a prostrate yew, Taxus canadensis, of eastern North America, having short, flat needles and red, berrylike fruit.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of ground hemlock1

An Americanism dating back to 1825–35
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I believe Luke is lying face down in a thicket, a tangle of bracken, the brown fronds from last year under the green ones just unrolled, or ground hemlock perhaps, although it’s too early for the red berries.

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The application of a poultice of ground hemlock, or a charge of gum hemlock, will generally be found useful.

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Like the hornbeams, hazel bushes, and ground hemlock, they are lovers of the shade; and they fringe the forest with a shrubbery border.

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Ground hemlock had been skinned of everything except the main stems.

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Toward nightfall, as the downpour subsided into a fine mist, Fred spied a big buck munching on ground hemlock 80 yards away.

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