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‖ solanum|səˈleɪnəm|
[L. sōlānum nightshade.]
A plant of the nightshade family, or the genus of gamopetalous plants of which this is the type; some amount or preparation of the plant used for medical purposes. Also fig.
1578Lyte Dodoens 447 This solanum cooleth..more strongly than the Common Nightshade. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. v. i. vi, Simples, as poppy, nightshade or solanum. a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. i. 7 That venemous solanum, that deadly nightshade, that drives its cold poison into the understandings of men. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 145 Apothecaries, when dispensing a recipe wherein antimony, solanum, laudanum, or mercury is an ingredient, are extremely careful. 1816Tuckey Narr. Exped. R. Zaire i. (1818) 22 Some herbaceous plants, particularly a convolvulus,..a solanum, a lotus, an aloe, &c. 1880C. R. Markham Peruv. Bark 123 A dense growth of bright-yellow compositæ, and solanums with a purple flower. 1884tr. De Candolle's Orig. Cultivated Pl. 49 The abundance of tuberous solanums growing in the temperate regions of America,..confirms the fact of an American origin.
attrib.1842Brande Dict. Sci., etc. 1129/1 Some of the Solanum tribes. 1861Bentley Man. Bot. 598 Solanaceæ.—The Solanum or Potato Order. 1884tr. De Candolle's Orig. Cultivated Pl. 53 The sweet potato belongs to the Convolvulus family, the potato to the Solanum family. |