black nightshade

What does black nightshade mean?

black nightshade means "Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible".

What is another word for black nightshade?

Close synonyms include common nightshade, poisonberry, poison-berry, Solanum nigrum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is black nightshade a common word?

black nightshade is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for black nightshade come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.