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black nightshade

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of several annual plants of the genus Solanum, especially the Eurasian species S. nigrum, widespread as a weed, which has clusters of white, star-shaped flowers and blackish berries that are poisonous when unripe.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible

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