资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Nightshade \Night"shade`\, n. [AS. nichtscadu.] (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.
{Deadly nightshade}. Same as {Belladonna}
(a) .
{Enchanter's nightshade}. See under {Enchanter}.
{Stinking nightshade}. See {Henbane}.
{Three-leaved nightshade}. See {Trillium}.
Solanine \Sol"a*nine\, n. [L. solanum nightshade.] (Chem.)
A poisonous alkaloid glucoside extracted from the berries of
common nightshade ({Solanum nigrum}), and of bittersweet, and
from potato sprouts, as a white crystalline substance having
an acrid, burning taste; -- called also {solonia}, and
{solanina}.
资料来源 : WordNet®
Solanum nigrum
n : Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers
and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries
that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible [syn: {black
nightshade}, {common nightshade}, {poisonberry}, {poison-berry}]