noun
Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible
• Syn: ↑common nightshade, ↑poisonberry, ↑poison-berry, ↑Solanum nigrum
• Hypernyms: ↑nightshade
• Hyponyms: ↑garden huckleberry, ↑wonderberry, ↑sunberry, ↑Solanum nigrum guineese, ↑Solanum melanocerasum, ↑Solanum burbankii
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noun : a cosmopolitan weed (Solanum nigrum) with hairy poisonous foliage, white flowers, and edible black berries
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a common weed, Solanum nigrum, of the nightshade family, having poisonous leaves, white flowers, and black edible berries.
[1810-20]
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black nightshade
A common plant of the nightshade family, Solanum nigrum, with poisonous leaves, white flowers and black berries
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Main Entry: ↑nightshade
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black nightshade,
a weed with white flowers, poisonous black berries, and leaves that have a poisonous juice. It is in the nightshade family.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.