horse nettle

1. 1.

   coarse prickly weed having pale yellow flowers and yellow berrylike fruit; common throughout southern and eastern United States

   Synonymsball nettlebull nettleball nightshadeSolanum carolinense

   Broadernightshade

Questions about horse nettle

What does horse nettle mean?

horse nettle means "coarse prickly weed having pale yellow flowers and yellow berrylike fruit; common throughout southern and eastern United States".

What is another word for horse nettle?

Close synonyms include ball nettle, bull nettle, ball nightshade, Solanum carolinense. 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 horse nettle a common word?

horse nettle 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.