单词 | nightshade |
释义 | nightshade (once / 18643 pages) n WORD FAMILY nightshade: nightshades USAGE EXAMPLESNightshades belong to a botanical family called Solanaceae, which includes potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant, and peppers, as well as tobacco. Time(Dec 15, 2016) The claim that nightshade vegetables like tomatoes, potatoes, eggplants and peppers aggravate arthritis pain has no research to back it up. Seattle Times(Oct 02, 2016) A lot easier to hang out with than Zoe Nightshade, anyway. Rick Riordan, The Titan's Curse(2007) n any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit Hypo|Hyper Solanum aviculare, kangaroo apple, poroporo Australian annual sometimes cultivated for its racemes of purple flowers and edible yellow egg-shaped fruit Solanum carolinense, ball nettle, ball nightshade, bull nettle, horse nettlecoarse prickly weed having pale yellow flowers and yellow berrylike fruit; common throughout southern and eastern United States Solanum dulcamara, bittersweet, bittersweet nightshade, climbing nightshade, deadly nightshade, poisonous nightshade, woody nightshadepoisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America Solanum elaeagnifolium, prairie berry, purple nightshade, silver-leaved nettle, silver-leaved nightshade, silverleaf nightshade, trompillo, white horse nettleweedy nightshade with silvery foliage and violet or blue or white flowers; roundish berry widely used to curdle milk; central United States to South America African holly, Solanum giganteumwoolly-stemmed biennial arborescent shrub of tropical Africa and southern Asia having silvery-white prickly branches, clusters of blue or white flowers, and bright red berries resembling holly berries Solanum nigrum, black nightshade, common nightshade, poison-berry, poisonberryEurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible Jerusalem cherry, Madeira winter cherry, Solanum pseudocapsicum, winter cherrysmall South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit Solanum rostratum, buffalo burNorth American nightshade with prickly foliage and racemose yellow flowers Solanum burbankii, Solanum melanocerasum, Solanum nigrum guineese, garden huckleberry, sunberry, wonderberryimproved garden variety of black nightshade having small edible orange or black berries ligneous plant, woody plant a plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems |
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