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Definition of Poisonous nightshade

1. Noun. Poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Poisonous Nightshade

Literary usage of Poisonous nightshade

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics: Embracing the Myths, Traditions by Richard Folkard (1884)
"... treacherously took the opportunity, during a period of truce, to mix the poisonous Nightshade with the beer with which they had agreed to supply them. ..."

2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1876)
"... it may prove to be the poisonous nightshade breathing death on those around; but surely for this neither the sunbeam nor the dewdrop can be blamed. ..."

3. Out-door Papers by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1863)
"it as belonging to the poisonous nightshade tribe, when the potato and the tomato also appertain to that perilous domestic circle. ..."

4. Out-door Papers by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1886)
"it as belonging to the poisonous nightshade tribe, when the potato and the tomato also appertain to that perilous domestic circle. ..."

5. Out-door Papers by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1886)
"it as belonging to the poisonous nightshade tribe, when the potato and the tomato also appertain to that perilous domestic circle. ..."

6. Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education by National Society for the Study of Education (1908)
"The Solanaceae were represented by the tomato, potato, and pepper, the innocuous relatives of the poisonous nightshade. The parsnip and carrot represented ..."

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