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Hemlock

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Hemlock may refer to:

Plants

  • Several poisonous plants in the family Apiaceae
    • Cicuta (water hemlock)
    • Conium, four species, of which maculatum is the only endemic outside of southern Africa; in history given to poison and execute people
    • Oenanthe crocata (water dropwort)
  • Tsuga, a genus of coniferous trees which resemble the poisonous plant, but are unrelated

Places

Communities

Canada
United States
  • Hemlock, Indiana
  • Hemlock, Michigan
  • Hemlock, Ohio
  • Hemlock, Fayette County, West Virginia
  • Hemlock, Jackson County, West Virginia
  • Hemlock, Wisconsin
  • Hemlock Township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania

Geographic features

Bodies of water

People

  • Babe and Carla Hemlock, Mohawk visual artists

Arts,entertainment, and media

Music

  • Hemlock (band), a heavy metal band from Las Vegas, Nevada
  • Hemlock Recordings, an London-based Electronic Record Label run by Untold (musician)

Other arts, entertainment, and media

  • Hemlock, a 1956 painting by Joan Mitchell
  • Hemlock Grove (TV series)
  • Hemlock Grove, a 2012 novel by Brian McGreevy
  • Sherlock Hemlock, the name of a Muppet detective

Computing and technology

  • Hemlock (text editor), a variant of the Emacs text editor for Unix
  • Hemlock (Evergreen series / Radeon HD 5970), a graphics card code-name

Organizations and enterprises

  • Compassion & Choices, formerly known as the Hemlock Society, a group advocating aid in dying for qualifying terminally ill patients in the United States
  • Hemlock Semiconductor Corporation, a producer of polysilicon in the United States
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