WordNet
purple nightshade
n. weedy nightshade with silvery foliage and violet or blue or white flowers; roundish berry widely used to curdle milk; central United States to South America [syn: trompillo, white horse nettle, prairie berry, silverleaf nightshade, silver-leaved nightshade, silver-leaved nettle, Solanum elaeagnifolium]
Usage examples of "purple nightshade".
Literature was a fresh garland of spring flowers, he said, in which yew-berries and the purple nightshade mingled with the various tints of the anemone.