English Explanatory Dictionary

nightshade

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of the poisonous plants belonging to the genus Solanum, especially black nightshade or woody nightshade.
  2. Any plant of the wider Solanaceae family, including the nightshades as well as tomato, potato, eggplant, and deadly nightshade.
  3. Belladonna or deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna).
  4. Any of several plants likened to nightshade, usually because of similar dark-colored berries.

Pronunciation

/ˈnaɪt.ʃeɪd/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-nightshade.wav

Word forms

nightshade nightshades

Etymology

From Middle English nyȝtschade, niȝteschode, nyght shade, from Old English nihtsċada, from Proto-West Germanic *nahtskadō (“nightshade”), corresponding to night + shade. Compare Dutch nachtschade (“nightshade”), German Nachtschatten (“nightshade”).

Related words

petit morel petty morel solano

Derived words

African nightshade American nightshade Argentine nightshade Bahama nightshade ball nightshade beaked nightshade bindweed nightshade bitter nightshade bittersweet nightshade black nightshade blue nightshade buffalobur nightshade climbing nightshade common nightshade cutleaf nightshade deadly nightshade enchanter's nightshade Ethiopian nightshade fetid nightshade garden nightshade green nightshade hairy nightshade hoe nightshade Indian nightshade Jamaican nightshade lance-leaved nightshade leafy-fruited nightshade Malabar nightshade melon-leaved nightshade orangeberry nightshade prickly nightshade red nightshade redberry nightshade shrubby nightshade silver-leaved nightshade silverleaf nightshade silver-leaf nightshade small nightshade sodaapple nightshade spiny nightshade sticky nightshade stinking nightshade tall nightshade Torrey's nightshade watermelon nightshade West Indian nightshade wetland nightshade white-margined nightshade woody nightshade woolly nightshade yellow nightshade
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