nightshade
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- Any of the poisonous plants belonging to the genus Solanum, especially black nightshade or woody nightshade.
- Any plant of the wider Solanaceae family, including the nightshades as well as tomato, potato, eggplant, and deadly nightshade.
- Belladonna or deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna).
- Any of several plants likened to nightshade, usually because of similar dark-colored berries.
- Wind that blows from where the sun rises.
- Hot and suffocating wind, wherever is its course.
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