What is "woody nightshade"

Woody \Wood"y\, a.

1. Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land. ``The woody wilderness.''
   --Bryant.

   Secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove.
   --Milton.

2. Consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber; ligneous; as, the woody parts of plants.

3. Of or pertaining to woods; sylvan. [R.] ``Woody nymphs, fair Hamadryades.'' --Spenser. Woody fiber. (Bot.)

   1. Fiber or tissue consisting of slender, membranous tubes tapering at each end.

   2. A single wood cell. See under Wood.
      --Goodale.

      Woody nightshade. (Bot.). See Bittersweet, 3 (a) .

      Woody pear (Bot.), the inedible, woody, pear-shaped fruit of several Australian proteaceous trees of the genus Xylomelum; -- called also wooden pear.

n. (context herbalism English) A shrubby plant, ''Solanum dulcamara''.

n. poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America [syn: bittersweet, bittersweet nightshade, climbing nightshade, deadly nightshade, poisonous nightshade, Solanum dulcamara]