common nightshade

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1.common nightshade - Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edibleblack nightshade, poisonberry, poison-berry, Solanum nigrumnightshade - any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruitgarden huckleberry, Solanum burbankii, Solanum melanocerasum, Solanum nigrum guineese, sunberry, wonderberry - improved garden variety of black nightshade having small edible orange or black berries