Definition of Common nightshade

1. Noun. Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Nightshade

common morning glory
common mosquito
common mugwort
common mullein
common multiple
common multiples
common murre
common myrtle
common nail
common nails
common name
common names
common nardoo
common newt
common nightingale
common nightshade (current term)
common noun
common nouns
common nuisance
common nutcracker
common oak
common opossum
common opsonin
common or garden
common or garden variety
common osier
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common pea
common people

Literary usage of Common nightshade

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

1. The Chicago Medical Journal and Examiner (1882)
"common nightshade (S. nigrum) is a frequent domestic remedy, in the form of a poultice of the leaves and plant, to bruises, sprains, eruptions due to ..."

2. Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the by Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.), United States General Land Office, United States Dept. of the Interior (1877)
"A respondent of the New York Tribune states that the Colorado potato- tie feeds on the common nightshade (Solan-urn nigrum). To quote words: "The Colorado ..."

3. Horticulture for Schools by Arnold Valentine Stubenrauch, Milo Nelson Wood, Charles Junius Booth (1922)
"The fruits or berries of the potato are much larger than those of the common nightshade, but here again an examination of the structure of each will show ..."

4. Botany for Young People and Common Schools: How Plants Grow, a Simple by Asa Gray (1880)
"common nightshade. A very common low, much-branched, homely weed, in damp or shady grounds ; root annual; leaves ovate, wavy-toothed; flowers very small, ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1903)
"The common nightshade is a cosmopolite, and frequent everywhere. As to the spurge, which is narrow-leaved or wide-leaved according to the society in which ..."

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