nightshade
noun/ˈnaɪt.ʃeɪd/
Etymology From Middle English nyȝtschade, niȝteschode, nyght shade, from Old English nihtsċada, from Proto-West Germanic *nahtskadō (“nightshade”), corresponding to night + shade. Compare Dutch nachtschade (“nightshade”), German Nachtschatten (“nightshade”).
1
Any of the poisonous plants belonging to the genus Solanum, especially black nightshade or woody nightshade.
2
Colloquial Any plant of the wider Solanaceae family, including the nightshades as well as tomato, potato, eggplant, and deadly nightshade.
3
Belladonna or deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna).
4
Any of several plants likened to nightshade, usually because of similar dark-colored berries.
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African nightshade, American nightshade, Argentine nightshade, Bahama nightshade, ball nightshade, beaked nightshade, bindweed nightshade, bitter nightshade, bittersweet nightshade, black nightshade, blue nightshade, buffalobur nightshade, climbing nightshade, common nightshade, cutleaf nightshade, deadly nightshade, enchanter's nightshade, Ethiopian nightshade, fetid nightshade, garden nightshade, green nightshade, hairy nightshade, hoe nightshade, Indian nightshade, Jamaican nightshade, lance-leaved nightshade, leafy-fruited nightshade, Malabar nightshade, melon-leaved nightshade, orangeberry nightshade, prickly nightshade, red nightshade, redberry nightshade, shrubby nightshade, silver-leaved nightshade, silverleaf nightshade, silver-leaf nightshade, small nightshade, sodaapple nightshade, spiny nightshade, sticky nightshade, stinking nightshade, tall nightshade, Torrey's nightshade, watermelon nightshade, West Indian nightshade, wetland nightshade, white-margined nightshade, woody nightshade, woolly nightshade, yellow nightshade- Related terms
- petit morel, petty morel, solano