Noun: black nightshade blak 'nIt,sheyd
- 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