Hemlock vs. Tree — What's the Difference?

A highly poisonous European plant of the parsley family, with a purple-spotted stem, fernlike leaves, small white flowers, and an unpleasant smell.

In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, supporting branches and leaves in most species. In some usages, the definition of a tree may be narrower, including only wood plants with secondary growth, plants that are usable as lumber or plants above a specified height.

A coniferous North American tree with dark green foliage which is said to smell like hemlock when crushed, grown chiefly for timber.

A woody perennial plant, typically having a single stem or trunk growing to a considerable height and bearing lateral branches at some distance from the ground.

Any of various coniferous evergreen trees of the genus Tsuga of North America and eastern Asia, having small cones and short flat leaves with two white bands underneath.

A wooden structure or part of a structure.

The wood of such trees, used as a source of lumber, wood pulp, and tannic acid.

A thing that has a branching structure resembling that of a tree.

Any of several poisonous plants of the genera Conium and Cicuta of the parsley family, such as the poison hemlock.

Force (a hunted animal) to take refuge in a tree.

A poison obtained from the poison hemlock.

(of an area) planted with trees

Any of the poisonous umbelliferous plants, of the genera

A perennial woody plant having a main trunk and usually a distinct crown.

Conium, either Conium maculatum or Conium chaerophylloides.

An herbaceous plant or shrub resembling a tree in form or size.

Cicuta, water hemlock plant.

Something that resembles a tree in form, especially a diagram or arrangement that has branches showing relationships of hierarchy or lineage.

The poison obtained from these Conium and Cicuta plants.

(Computers) A structure for organizing or classifying data in which every item can be traced to a single origin through a unique path.

Any of several coniferous trees, of the genus Tsuga, that grow in North America; the wood of such trees.

A wooden beam, post, stake, or bar used as part of a framework or structure.

The name of several poisonous umbelliferous herbs having finely cut leaves and small white flowers, as the Cicuta maculata, Cicuta bulbifera, and Cicuta virosa, and the Conium maculatum. See Conium.

A saddletree.

An evergreen tree common in North America (Abies Canadensis or Tsuga Canadensis); hemlock spruce.

A gallows.

The wood or timber of the hemlock tree.

The cross on which Jesus was crucified.

Poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium;

To force up a tree

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

(Informal) To force into a difficult position; corner

Soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock

To supply or cover with trees

An evergreen tree

A perennial woody plant, not exactly defined, but differentiated from a shrub by its larger size (typically over a few meters in height) or growth habit, usually having a single (or few) main axis or trunk unbranched for some distance above the ground and a head of branches and foliage.

Any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree (in any botanical sense).

An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.

A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.

The structural frame of a saddle.

(graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n−1 edges.

(computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children.

(graphical user interface) A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right.

Any structure or construct having branches representing divergence or possible choices.

The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.

Marijuana.

(obsolete) A cross or gallows.

(chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.

(cartomancy) The fifth Lenormand card.

(transitive) To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.

(transitive) To place in a tree.

(transitive) To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree.

(intransitive) To take refuge in a tree.

Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.

Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree.

A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; - used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.

A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree.

Wood; timber.

A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead.

To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel.

A tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

A figure that branches from a single root;

English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare (1853-1917)

Chase a bear up a tree with dogs and kill it