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noun
Informal name of various plants with poisonous berries, most commonly nightshades:
Deadly nightshade.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Informal name of various plants with poisonous berries, most commonly nightshades:
Bittersweet nightshade, Solanum dulcamara.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Informal name of various plants with poisonous berries, most commonly nightshades:
Plants in the genus Cestrum: Cestrum nocturnum, Cestrum parqui.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Informal name of various plants with poisonous berries, most commonly nightshades:
Any other berry of a plant in the nightshade family, Solanaceae, most of which are poisonous at least when unripe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Informal name of various plants with poisonous berries, most commonly nightshades:
Bluebead lily (Clintonia borealis).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Informal name of various plants with poisonous berries, most commonly nightshades:
Pokeweed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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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: black nightshade, common nightshade, poison-berry, Solanum nigrum
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Broader terms: nightshade
Narrower terms: garden huckleberry, wonderberry, sunberry, Solanum nigrum guineese, Solanum melanocerasum, Solanum burbankii
History
From poison + berry.
