woody nightshade
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(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a scrambling woody Eurasian solanaceous plant, Solanum dulcamara, having purple flowers with recurved petals and a protruding cone of yellow anthers and producing poisonous red berry-like fruits Also called bittersweet
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| Noun | 1. |  woody nightshade - poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North Americabittersweet, bittersweet nightshade, climbing nightshade, poisonous nightshade, Solanum dulcamara, deadly nightshade genus Solanum, Solanum - type genus of the Solanaceae: nightshade; potato; eggplant; bittersweet nightshade - any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit |
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