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Preferred term

Hemlock  

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Broader concept

Note

  • for hemlock tree use TSUGA; GEN or unspecified; prefer specifics: CONIUM or CICUTA

Scope note

  • Any of several poisonous plants, commonly called poison hemlock, of the CICUTA or CONIUM genus. The hemlock tree (TSUGA) is completely unrelated being a coniferous tree of the pine family.

History note

  • 95

In other languages

  • katko

    Finnish

  • Cicuta major
  • Cicuta virosa
  • Conium maculatum
  • Hemlock

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D018652

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