Noun: poisonberry
- Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible
"poisonberry grows as a weed in the vegetable garden";
- black nightshade, common nightshade, poison-berry, Solanum nigrum
Derived forms: poison-berries, poisonberries
Type of: nightshade
Encyclopedia: Poisonberry