English > nightshade: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | Any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit. |
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| Member of | Solanum, genus Solanum | type genus of the Solanaceae |
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| Narrower | African holly, Solanum giganteum | woolly-stemmed biennial arborescent shrub of tropical Africa and southern Asia having silvery-white prickly branches, clusters of blue or white flowers, and bright red berries resembling holly berries |
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| Jerusalem cherry, winter cherry, Madeira winter cherry, Solanum pseudocapsicum | small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit |
| bittersweet, bittersweet nightshade, climbing nightshade, deadly nightshade, poisonous nightshade, woody nightshade, Solanum dulcamara | poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries |
| black nightshade, common nightshade, poisonberry, poison-berry, Solanum nigrum | Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible |
| buffalo bur, Solanum rostratum | North American nightshade with prickly foliage and racemose yellow flowers |
| horse nettle, ball nettle, bull nettle, ball nightshade, Solanum carolinense | coarse prickly weed having pale yellow flowers and yellow berrylike fruit |
| kangaroo apple, poroporo, Solanum aviculare | Australian annual sometimes cultivated for its racemes of purple flowers and edible yellow egg-shaped fruit |
| trompillo, white horse nettle, prairie berry, purple nightshade, silverleaf nightshade, silver-leaved nightshade, silver-leaved nettle, Solanum elaeagnifolium | weedy nightshade with silvery foliage and violet or blue or white flowers |
| Broader | woody plant, ligneous plant | A plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems |
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| Spanish | dulcamara, dulzamara, hierba mora, solanácea, solano |
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| Catalan | dulcamara, herba móra, morella |
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