noun
large evergreen of western United States; wood much harder than Canadian hemlock
• Syn: ↑black hemlock, ↑Tsuga mertensiana
• Hypernyms: ↑hemlock, ↑hemlock tree
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noun : a hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana) of the western United States that attains large size and has wood much harder than that of Canadian hemlock — called also black hemlock
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mountain hemlock,
a large hemlock of the western United States that yields a hard lumber.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.