solanum nigrum

Questions about solanum nigrum

What does solanum nigrum mean?

solanum nigrum 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 solanum nigrum?

Close synonyms include black nightshade, common nightshade, poisonberry, poison-berry. 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 nigrum a common word?

solanum nigrum 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 solanum nigrum come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.