Search Result for "solanum nigrum":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible;
[syn: black nightshade, common nightshade, poisonberry, poison-berry, Solanum nigrum]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Solanine \Sol"a*nine\, n. [L. solanum nightshade.] (Chem.) A poisonous alkaloid glucoside extracted from the berries of common nightshade (Solanum nigrum), and of bittersweet, and from potato sprouts, as a white crystalline substance having an acrid, burning taste; -- called also solonia, and solanina. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Nightshade \Night"shade`\, n. [AS. nichtscadu.] (Bot.) A common name of many species of the genus Solanum, given esp. to the Solanum nigrum, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous. [1913 Webster] Deadly nightshade. Same as Belladonna (a) . Enchanter's nightshade. See under Enchanter. Stinking nightshade. See Henbane. Three-leaved nightshade. See Trillium. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Solanum nigrum n 1: Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible [syn: black nightshade, common nightshade, poisonberry, poison- berry, Solanum nigrum]