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HORSE NETTLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coarse prickly weed having pale yellow flowers and yellow berrylike fruit; common throughout southern and eastern United States
Synonyms:
ball nettle; ball nightshade; bull nettle; horse nettle; Solanum carolinense
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("horse nettle" 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)