Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name applied to two plants: Atropa Belladonna, or deadly nightshade;
- noun Ranunculus Flammula, or lesser spearwort, from the supposition that it is a bane to sheep.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Deadly nightshade.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany Atropa belladonna,
deadly nightshade .
Etymologies
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bane + wort
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