poisonous nightshade

Questions about poisonous nightshade

What does poisonous nightshade mean?

poisonous nightshade means "poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America".

What is another word for poisonous nightshade?

Close synonyms include bittersweet, bittersweet nightshade, climbing nightshade, deadly nightshade, woody nightshade. 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 poisonous nightshade a common word?

poisonous 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.