nightshade
IPA: nˈaɪtʃeɪd
noun
- 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.
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Examples of "nightshade" in Sentences
- Nightshade and the villains are defeated.
- And the uptime on nightshade confirms that.
- The tomato belongs to the nightshade family.
- Nightshade briefly appears in the animated movie.
- It is a member of the nightshade family Solanaceae.
- It's the prominence with respect to Deadly nightshade.
- But I'm interested in deadly nightshade, not homeopathy.
- Nightshade is a mystic with the power to communicate with the dead.
- More likely is the relationship of the tomato plant to the nightshade plant.
- The Darkling is destroyed, Nightshade flees, and order is restored to Landover.
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