nightshade
English
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Etymology
editFrom Middle English nyȝtschade, niȝteschode, nyght shade, from Old English nihtsċada, corresponding to night + shade. Compare German Nachtschatten.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editnightshade (plural nightshades)
- Any of the poisonous plants belonging to the genus Solanum, especially black nightshade or woody nightshade.
- (colloquial) Any plant of the wider Solanaceae family, including the nightshades as well as tomato, potato, eggplant, and deadly nightshade.
- Belladonna or deadly nightshade, Atropa belladonna.
- Any of several plants likened to nightshade, usually because of similar dark-colored berries.
- Wind that blows from where the sun rises.
- Synonym: rabiazorras
- (regional, Province of Burgos and Basque Country, Spain) Hot and suffocating wind, wherever is its course.
Derived terms
edit- African nightshades (Solanum spp.)
- alpine enchanter's nightshade
- American nightshades
- Bahama nightshade (Solanum bahamense)
- ball nightshades (Solanum carolinense)
- beaked nightshade (Solanum rostratum)
- bindweed nightshade (Circaea spp.)
- bitter nightshade, bittersweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara)
- black nightshade (Solanum nigrum)
- blue nightshade (Solanum dulcamara)
- buffalobur nightshade (Solanum rostratum)
- climbing nightshade (Solanum dulcamara)
- common nightshade (Solanum nigrum)
- cutleaf nightshade (Solanum triflorum)
- deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna, Solanum dulcamara)
- enchanter's nightshade (Circaea spp.)
- Ethiopian nightshade (Solanum aethiopicum)
- fetid nightshade (Hyoscyamus niger)
- garden nightshade (Solanum nigrum)
- green nightshade (Solanum sarrachoides, Solanum physalifolium)
- hairy nightshade (Solanum spp.)
- hoe nightshade (Solanum sarrachoides, Solanum physalifolium)
- Indian nightshade (Solanum aculeatissimum)
- Jamaican nightshade (Solanum jamaicense)
- lance-leaved nightshade (Solanum lanceifolium)
- leafy-fruited nightshade (Solanum sarrachoides)
- Malabar nightshade (Basella alba)
- melon-leaved nightshade (Solanum heterodoxum)
- orangeberry nightshade (Solanum lanceolatum)
- prickly nightshade (Solanum torvum)
- red nightshade (Solanum villosum; Phytolacca americana)
- redberry nightshade (Solanum campechiense)
- shrubby nightshade, (Solanum robustum)
- silver-leaved nightshade, silverleaf nightshade, silver-leaf nightshade (Solanum elaeagnifolium)
- small enchanter's nightshade
- small nightshade (Solanum triflorum)
- sodaapple nightshade (Solanum aculeastrum)
- spiny nightshade (Solanum rostratum)
- sticky nightshade (Solanum sisymbriifolium)
- stinking nightshade (Hyoscyamus niger)
- tall nightshade (Solanum giganteum; Solanum chenopodioides)
- Torrey's nightshade (Solanum dimidiatum)
- watermelon nightshade (Solanum citrullifolium)
- West Indian nightshade (Solanum ptychanthum)
- wetland nightshade (Solanum tampicense)
- white-margined nightshade (Solanum marginatum)
- woody nightshade (Solanum dulcamara)
- woolly nightshade (Solanum mauritianum; Solanum villosum)
- yellow nightshade (Solanum villosum; Physalis crassifolia)
Translations
editplant of genus Solanum
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deadly nightshade — see deadly nightshade
See also
editReferences
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nightshade on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Solanaceae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Category:Solanaceae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - solano on Real Academia Española
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