Found 2 items, similar to Solanum nigrum.
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Definition: Solanum nigrum
Solanum nigrum
n : 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]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Solanum nigrum
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]
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]