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noun
A Eurasian species of nightshade with black berries, Solanum nigrum, of Europe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Other similar members of a group of closely-related species from the Solanum nigrum complex:
Solanum americanum (American black nightshade) of much of North America
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noun
Other similar members of a group of closely-related species from the Solanum nigrum complex:
Solanum ptychanthum (eastern black nightshade) of the Caribbean region.
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noun
Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: common nightshade, poisonberry, poison-berry, Solanum nigrum
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: nightshade
Narrower terms: garden huckleberry, wonderberry, sunberry, Solanum nigrum guineese, Solanum melanocerasum, Solanum burbankii
History
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Across languages
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