NOUN | plant | Solanum nigrum, black nightshade, common nightshade, poisonberry, poison-berry | Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible |
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Meaning | Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible. | |
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Synonyms | black nightshade, common nightshade, poisonberry, poison-berry | |
Narrower | garden huckleberry, wonderberry, sunberry, Solanum nigrum guineese, Solanum melanocerasum, Solanum burbankii | improved garden variety of black nightshade having small edible orange or black berries |
Broader | nightshade | Any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum |
Catalan | Solanum nigrum |
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