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The Clue
Trees used in tanning (8 letter answer)
The Answer
HEMLOCKS
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Notes
The answer HEMLOCKS is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
Definition
HEMLOCK as a noun:
1. poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium; "Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking hemlock"
2. (hemlock, poison hemlock, poison parsley, California fern, Nebraska fern, winter fern, Conium maculatum) = 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
3. soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock
4. (hemlock, hemlock tree) = an evergreen tree