POISON-BERRY

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 I. (noun) 

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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

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("poison-berry" 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 "poison-berry"):

garden huckleberry; Solanum burbankii; Solanum melanocerasum; Solanum nigrum guineese; sunberry; wonderberry (improved garden variety of black nightshade having small edible orange or black berries)

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