nightshade
English Thesaurus
1. any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | ligneous plant, woody plant, |
| definition | : | a plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | kangaroo apple, poroporo, solanum aviculare, |
| definition | : | Australian annual sometimes cultivated for its racemes of purple flowers and edible yellow egg-shaped fruit (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | ball nettle, ball nightshade, bull nettle, horse nettle, solanum carolinense, |
| definition | : | coarse prickly weed having pale yellow flowers and yellow berrylike fruit; common throughout southern and eastern United States (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | bittersweet, bittersweet nightshade, climbing nightshade, deadly nightshade, poisonous nightshade, solanum dulcamara, woody nightshade, |
| definition | : | poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | prairie berry, purple nightshade, silver-leaved nettle, silver-leaved nightshade, silverleaf nightshade, solanum elaeagnifolium, trompillo, white horse nettle, |
| definition | : | weedy nightshade with silvery foliage and violet or blue or white flowers; roundish berry widely used to curdle milk; central United States to South America (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | african holly, solanum giganteum, |
| definition | : | woolly-stemmed biennial arborescent shrub of tropical Africa and southern Asia having silvery-white prickly branches, clusters of blue or white flowers, and bright red berries resembling holly berries (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | black nightshade, common nightshade, poison-berry, poisonberry, solanum nigrum, |
| definition | : | Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | jerusalem cherry, madeira winter cherry, solanum pseudocapsicum, winter cherry, |
| definition | : | small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | buffalo bur, solanum rostratum, |
| definition | : | North American nightshade with prickly foliage and racemose yellow flowers (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genus solanum, solanum, |
| definition | : | type genus of the Solanaceae: nightshade; potato; eggplant; bittersweet (noun.plant) |
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