black nightshade

black nightshade

n.

A poisonous, annual Eurasian plant (Solanum nigrum) widespread as a weed and having clusters of white, star-shaped flowers and usually blackish berries.

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black nightshade

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(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a poisonous solanaceous plant, Solanum nigrum, a common weed in cultivated land, having small white flowers with backward-curved petals and black berry-like fruits

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Noun

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black nightshade - Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible common nightshade, poison-berry, poisonberry, Solanum nigrum nightshade - any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit garden huckleberry, Solanum burbankii, Solanum melanocerasum, Solanum nigrum guineese, sunberry, wonderberry - improved garden variety of black nightshade having small edible orange or black berries