solanum dulcamara

Questions about solanum dulcamara

What does solanum dulcamara mean?

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

What is another word for solanum dulcamara?

Close synonyms include bittersweet, bittersweet nightshade, climbing nightshade, deadly nightshade, poisonous 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 solanum dulcamara a common word?

solanum dulcamara 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.