What is another word for nightshade?

Pronunciation: [nˈa͡ɪtʃe͡ɪd] (IPA)

Nightshade is a common name for plants that belong to the Solanaceae family. These plants have numerous species, and each species has its unique properties. Synonyms for Nightshade include Poison Berry, Black Nightshade, Belladonna, Solanum Americanum, and Solanum Nigrum. Poison Berry refers to the small black berries found on some nightshade plants. Black Nightshade is a common name for Solanum Nigrum, a species that has small black fruit. Belladonna is another name for Atropa Belladonna, a poisonous nightshade with shiny black berries. Solanum Americanum is an American nightshade species, while Solanum Nigrum is a Eurasian species commonly called Huckleberry.

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Usage examples for Nightshade

He might have said, for example, that the difference was like the difference between the rose, with its perfume and its comprehensible thorns, and the poppy, or the hemlock or the deadly nightshade, blooms of fatal lure and incalculable perils.
"Command"
William McFee
To do her justice, she would have behaved exactly the same to a statue, or even to nothing at all, as a peacock dances and postures and vibrates his plumes to a kitten; and had no more deliberate intention of giving pain to anybody than a nightshade has of poisoning a silly sheep.
"By What Authority?"
Robert Hugh Benson
They seem to me a stagnant fen, Grown rank with rushes and with reeds, Where a white lily, now and then, Blooms in the midst of noxious weeds And deadly nightshade on its banks."
"The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Famous quotes with Nightshade

  • By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.
    Edward Walker
  • Past the flannel plains and the blacktop graphs and skylines of canted rust, and past the tobacco-brown river overhung with weeping trees and coins of sunlight through them on the water downriver, to the place beyond the windbreak, where untilled fields simmer shrilly in the a.m. heat: shattercane, lamb’s-quarter, cutgrass, sawbrier, nutgrass, jimsonweed, wild mint, dandelion, foxtail, muscatine, spinecabbage, goldenrod, creeping charlie, butter-print, nightshade, ragweed, wild oat, vetch, butcher grass, invaginate volunteer beans, all heads gently nodding in a morning breeze like a mother’s soft hand on your cheek.
    David Foster Wallace
  • As for Lucrezia, there wasn't even a rumor in her own day that the strawberries at her Wednesday luncheons were dipped in sugar of lead and the other dishes tastefully sprayed with antimony, hellebore, corrosive sublimate, and deadly nightshade, all popular Renaissance flavors.
    Will Cuppy

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