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Noun: black nightshade  blak 'nIt,sheyd
  1. Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible
    "Black nightshade grows as a weed in the vegetable garden";
    - common nightshade, poisonberry, poison-berry, Solanum nigrum

Derived forms: black nightshades

Type of: nightshade

Encyclopedia: Black nightshade