WordNet
black hemlock
n. large evergreen of western United States; wood much harder than Canadian hemlock [syn: mountain hemlock, Tsuga mertensiana]
Usage examples of "black hemlock".
The clump of weeping- willows about the duck pond, and the Norway spruces in front of the Hatchard gate, cast almost the only roadside shadow between lawyer Royall's house and the point where, at the other end of the village, the road rises above the church and skirts the black hemlock wall enclosing the cemetery.