nightshade

night·shade  (ntshd)

n.

1. Any of several plants of the genus Solanum, such as the bittersweet nightshade, most of which have a poisonous juice.

2. Any of various similar or related plants, such as belladonna.

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[Middle English, from Old English nihtscada : niht, night; see night + sceadu, shade.]

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nightshade

Noun

a plant which produces poisonous berries with bell-shaped flowers [Old English nihtscada]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

nightshade - any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit genus Solanum, Solanum - type genus of the Solanaceae: nightshade; potato; eggplant; bittersweet kangaroo apple, poroporo, Solanum aviculare - Australian annual sometimes cultivated for its racemes of purple flowers and edible yellow egg-shaped fruit ball nettle, ball nightshade, bull nettle, horse nettle, Solanum carolinense - coarse prickly weed having pale yellow flowers and yellow berrylike fruit; common throughout southern and eastern United States bittersweet, bittersweet nightshade, climbing nightshade, poisonous nightshade, Solanum dulcamara, woody nightshade, deadly nightshade - poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America prairie berry, purple nightshade, silver-leaved nettle, silver-leaved nightshade, silverleaf nightshade, Solanum elaeagnifolium, trompillo, white horse nettle - weedy nightshade with silvery foliage and violet or blue or white flowers; roundish berry widely used to curdle milk; central United States to South America 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 black nightshade, common nightshade, poison-berry, poisonberry, 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 Jerusalem cherry, Madeira winter cherry, Solanum pseudocapsicum, winter cherry - small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit buffalo bur, Solanum rostratum - North American nightshade with prickly foliage and racemose yellow flowers ligneous plant, woody plant - a plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems

Translations

nightshade [ˈnaɪtʃeɪd] n deadly nightshade (BOT) → belladona

nightshade [ˈnaɪtʃeɪd] n deadly nightshade (Bot) → belladone f

nightshade [ˈnaɪtʃeɪd] n deadly nightshade → Tollkirsche f

nightshade [ˈnaɪtʃeɪd] n deadly nightshade (BOT) → belladonna