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nightshade

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nightshade

Any of several plants in the nightshade family. They include the annual herbaceous black nightshade (S. nigrum), with white flowers similar to those of the potato plant and black berries; the perennial shrubby bittersweet or woody nightshade (S. dulcamara), with purple, potatolike flowers and scarlet berries; and, belonging to a different genus, deadly nightshade or belladonna (A. belladonna). (Genera Solanum and Atropa, family Solanaceae.)



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Would he not suddenly sink into the earth, leaving a barren and blasted spot, where, in due course of time, would be seen deadly nightshade, dogwood, henbane, and whatever else of vegetable wickedness the climate could produce, all flourishing with hideous luxuriance?
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
"The brooding willow whispered to the yew; Beneath, the deadly nightshade and the rue, With immortelles self-woven into strange Funereal shapes, and horrid nettles grew.
Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
Literature was a fresh garland of spring flowers, he said, in which yew-berries and the purple nightshade mingled with the various tints of the anemone; and somehow or other this garland encircled marble brows.
Night and Day by Woolf, Virginia View in context
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