common nightshade

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

   Synonymsblack nightshadepoisonberrypoison-berrySolanum nigrum

   Broadernightshade

   Narrowergarden huckleberry

Questions about common nightshade

What does common nightshade mean?

common 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 common nightshade?

Close synonyms include black 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 common nightshade a common word?

common 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.