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Nightshade

noun

Any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit.

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"Nightshade" Quotes from Famous Books

... out of the cottage, a bundle of enchanter's nightshade in her arms. She hangs it by a string to the wall ...

— Six Plays • Florence Henrietta Darwin

... author already quoted, "are now sparkling with their abundant berries,—the wild rose with the hip, the hawthorn with the haw, the blackthorn with the sloe, the bramble with the blackberry; and the briony, privet, honey-suckle, elder, holly, and woody nightshade, with their other winter feasts for ...

— Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 276 - Volume 10, No. 276, October 6, 1827 • Various

... hand-painted by the bevy of bridesmaids to please a fancy of Ethel's. Norma's was in the center—the place of honor. It was a strange thing that Norma had selected to paint; heavy sprays of mingled nightshade and monkshood on a ground the color of a fading leaf; but, strange as it was, it was the most beautiful of them all. There were flowers in the room and the perfume of heliotrope and roses filled the ...

— Princess • Mary Greenway McClelland

... our colonists have very inappropriately bestowed the name Kangaroo-apple, while in literal scientific translation it ought to be called Bird's Nightshade, because Captain Cook's companions observed in New Zealand that birds were feeding on the berries ...

— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris

Words linked to "Nightshade" : winter cherry, African holly, ligneous plant, poisonberry, stinking nightshade, genus Solanum, prairie berry, bull nettle, Solanum nigrum, horse nettle, Solanum, poroporo, Solanum carolinense, woody nightshade, bittersweet, kangaroo apple, buffalo bur, Solanum dulcamara, bittersweet nightshade, silver-leaved nettle, trompillo, Solanum aviculare, Solanum elaeagnifolium, Solanum rostratum, poison-berry, ball nettle, white horse nettle, woody plant, Solanum pseudocapsicum, Jerusalem cherry, Madeira winter cherry, Solanum giganteum