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Petunia's plant family
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nightshade
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English nihtscada , literally "shade of night," perhaps in allusion to the poisonous berries. A common Germanic compound, cognates: Dutch nachtschade , German Nachtschatten .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Nightshade is an original novel written by Mark Gatiss and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who . It features the Seventh Doctor and Ace . A prelude to the novel, also penned by Gatiss, appeared in Doctor Who Magazine ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nightshade \Night"shade`\, n. [AS. nichtscadu.] (Bot.) A common name of many species of the genus Solanum , given esp. to the Solanum nigrum , or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit
Usage examples of nightshade.
Brecht and turned at last to face the outcaste Barrani lord known, in this fief, as Nightshade.
The drug runners were bringing in comine, nightshade, tabac, zimweed, but the pressure was on in Sector Sardonyx, and no one was carrying dorazine.
Lord Nightshade looked beyond them both, and met the whirling red of unlidded Dragon gaze.
The mists and vapors stirred by the cool night roiled in the low glades and hung motionless in the copses, but Maxim rode on like a venging nightshade.
As I drew nearer I noticed for the first time that it was not the common nightshade, which grew wild about the country, but was the atropa, a plant not indigenous to California.
I sat down to enjoy the picture, I became aware of some one walking behind the great clumps of nightshade, and presently a young woman stepped from behind the atropa where Madre Moreno had that morning been picking the poisonous leaves, and walked across the hollow, stepping gracefully from stone to stone till she came to the bright spot where the sun was shining, and seating herself at the foot of the wall, opened a book and began to read aloud.
Yet she did not doubt that she would hear of him, as he scattered the bits and pieces he had carried from the church—the blains and poisons that caused suffering, even death, and those, like hellebore and nightshade, that could kill or cure.
He told her how they had thought themselves finished once Nightshade had summoned her formidable magic but then had inexplicably found themselves in the High Lord’s old world, in Seattle, at Bumbershoot.
He told her how they had thought themselves finished once Nightshade had summoned her formidable magic but then had inexplicably found themselves in the High Lord's old world, in Seattle, at Bumbershoot.
For example, there is some evidence that atropine-one of the chief active ingredients in hemlock, foxglove, deadly nightshade, and jimson weed-induces the illusion of flying.
In rapid order Moon Boy became poison ivy, a patch of deadly nightshade, and a clump of red berries I wouldn't have approached with a barge pole.
The girl regarded her with eyes the deep purple of bittersweet nightshade.
Her purple-shadowed eyes narrowed suddenly, the color of bittersweet nightshade.
The only things that grew with any vigour were poisonous plants: henbane and black nightshade, hemlock and bittersweet.
One jar puzzled him, for according to the label it contained deadly nightshade.