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COMMON NIGHTSHADE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible
Synonyms:
black nightshade; common nightshade; poison-berry; poisonberry; Solanum nigrum
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("common nightshade" is a kind of...):
nightshade (any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "common nightshade"):
garden huckleberry; Solanum burbankii; Solanum melanocerasum; Solanum nigrum guineese; sunberry; wonderberry (improved garden variety of black nightshade having small edible orange or black berries)