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hempine noun The eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis), the only native hemlock in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. From its bark is made a medicinal tea.

1926 Hunnicutt Twenty Years 44 Old Trail turned the bear loose and ran out to the hempine tree and began to give the tree bark. 1967 Hall Coll (Townsend TN) They was plenty of hempine [in the Devil’s Courthouse], big trees, three or four foot through. 1982 Powers and Hannah Cataloochee 440 The hemlock, known locally as the “hempine,” covered 60% of the bottoms of Cataloochee in 1905.