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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of several plants of the genus Solanum, such as the bittersweet nightshade, most of which have a poisonous juice.
  2. n. Any of various similar or related plants, such as belladonna.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A plant of the genus Solanum, or of the Solanaceæ or nightshade family. Chiefiy. S. nigrum, the common or black nightshade, a homely weed of shady places, or S. Dulcamara, the bittersweet or woody nightshade. See bittersweet, 1.
  2. n. The name of a few plants of other orders, as below.
  3. n. The darkness of the night.
  4. n. A prostitute.
  5. n. Solanum aculeatisdmum, a shrubby and prickly species with yellow berries found from North Carolina to Florida and west to Texas.

Wiktionary

  1. n. botany Any of the poisonous plants belonging to the genus Solanum, especially black nightshade or woody nightshade.
  2. n. botany, colloquial Any plant of the wider Solanaceae family, including the nightshades as well as tomato, potato, eggplant, and deadly nightshade.
  3. n. Belladonna or deadly nightshade, Atropa belladonna.
  4. n. Any of several plants likened to nightshade, usually because of similar dark-colored berries.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Bot.) A common name of many species of the genus Solanum, given esp. to the Solanum nigrum, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit

Etymologies

  1. Old English nihtscada, apparently corresponding to night + shade. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old English nihtscada : niht, night; see night + sceadu, shade. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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