nightshade
nightshade
Definition
night·shade (nīt′s̸hād′)
noun
- any of a large genus (Solanum) of chiefly tropical plants of the nightshade family, with five-lobed leaves and flowers of various colors, including the black nightshade
- belladonna (sense )
- henbane
Etymology: ME nichtheschode < OE nihtscada (see night & shade): ? with reference to narcotic qualities
adjective
designating a large family (Solanaceae, order Solanales) of poisonous and nonpoisonous dicotyledonous plants chiefly of warm regions, generally having a round stem, rank smell, and watery sap, and including the tobaccos, red peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, petunias, and eggplant
nightshade
Usage Examples
Possessives
- enchanter: Plants include the wild daffodil, wood anemone and enchanters ' nightshade among others.
Converse of object
- include: On our August 2002 trip we found several new plants, including black nightshade, pink water speedwell, water plantain and dwarf spurge.
- eat: Another account relates how he poisoned himself by eating deadly nightshade, other less specific reports simply say that he died from poisoning.
Adjective modifier
- woody: Someone had been hoeing up the weeds by the path, possibly the related woody nightshade which may have been its host.
- deadly: Tomato sauce: the tomato plant, a relative of deadly nightshade, originated in the Andes.
- black: On our August 2002 trip we found several new plants, including black nightshade, pink water speedwell, water plantain and dwarf spurge.
- Black: Black nightshade grows rapidly after germination and the time from emergence to flowering is around 60 days in May and 50 days in July.
- crushed: I have substituted some healing herbs for the crushed nightshade we found in Turok's quarters.
- poisonous: According to one belief, Romans were thought to have mixed a special drink for their enemy with a poisonous nightshade in it.
Modifies a noun
- family: Chillies are members of the Solanaceae, or nightshade family of plants.
- plant: During the Italian Renaissance, women used eye drops made from the berries of the deadly nightshade plant.
- seed: Black nightshade seeds have also been found in cattle droppings.
- flower: Biology: Black nightshade flowers from July to September.
- berry: Demons In " Petits Pois " a childless wife poisons her husband with deadly nightshade berries on their ruby wedding anniversary.
- food: The nutritionalist I saw also suggested avoiding the nightshade foods, but love aubergines!
Noun used with modifier
- enchanter: Over Hadrian's Wall An ascent from Ullswater to Little Mell Fell passes alpine enchanters nightshade.
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