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Plural of hemlock

regular plural

The plural of hemlock is hemlocks.

Forms of hemlock

Singularhemlock /ˈhɛmˌlɒk/
Pluralhemlocks
Countablecountable and uncountable

Hemlocks in a sentence

  • The wind blows and the hemlocks wave their feathery leading shoots.2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 380
  • A good peeler could make two cords of bark a day, felling hemlocks and peeling the bark off only the trunk below the first branch.2009, David Stradling, Making Mountains: New York City and the Catskills, →ISBN, page 31. From the entry peeler

Meaning of hemlock

  1. noun Conium, either Conium maculatum or Conium chaerophylloides.
  2. noun Cicuta (water hemlock).
  3. noun Poison obtained from these Conium and Cicuta plants.

Full definition of hemlock

Questions about the plural of hemlock

What is the plural of hemlock?
The plural of hemlock is hemlocks.
Is hemlock countable?
Hemlock is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hemlock (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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