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Definition: Nightshade |
NightshadeNoun1. Any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nightshade" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1819. (references) |
Note: Nightshade \Night"shade`\, noun. [from Anglo-Saxon expression nichtscadu.]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Solanum Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Solanales Family: Solanaceae Genus: Solanum Species S. wallacei - Wallace's nightshade
S. aculeastrum - sodaapple nightshade
S. adscendens - sonoita nightshade
S. aethiopicum - Ethiopian nightshade
S. americanum. - purple nightshade
S. aviculare - New Zealand nightshade
S. bahamense - Bahama nightshade
S. bulbocastanum - ornamental nightshade
S. burbankii - wonderberry
S. campechiense - redberry nightshade
S. capsicastrum - false Jerusalem cherry
S. capsicoides - cockroach berry
S. cardiophyllum - heartleaf nightshade
S. carolinense - apple of Sodom
S. chenopodioides - goosefoot nightshade
S. citrullifolium - watermelon nightshade
S. clokeyi - Clokey's nightshade
S. commersonii - Commerson's nightshade
S. conocarpum - marron bacoba
S. crispum - potato vine
S. davisensen - Davis horsenettle
S. demissum - nightshade
S. dimidiatum - Torrey's nightshade
S. diphyllum - twinleaf nightshade
S. donianum - mullein nightshade
S. douglasii - greenspot nightshade
S. drymophilum - erubia
S. dulcamara - woody nightshade
S. elaeagnifolium - silverleaf nightshade
S. erianthum - mullein nightshade, potato tree
S. fendleri - Fendler's horsenettle
S. ferox - nightshade
S. furcatum - forked nightshade
S. gayanum - Chilean nightshade
S. gilo - gilo
S. glacum
S. glaucophyllum - waxyleaf nightshade
S. gracilius - slender nightshade
S. haleakalense
S. heterodoxum - melon-leaf nightshade
S. hindsianum - Hinds' nightshade
S. hyporhodium - cocona
S. imcompletum
S. incanum - nightshade
S. incompletum - Popolo ku mai
S. interius - deadly nightshade
S. jamaicense - Jamaican nightshade
S. jamesii - wild potato
S. jasminoides Paxton - jasmine nightshade
S. khasianum - nightshade
S. lanceifolium - lanceleaf nightshade
S. lanceolatum - orangeberry nightshade
S. leptosepalum Correll - tigna potato
S. lumholtzianum - Sonoran nightshade
S. lycopersicum - garden tomato
S. macrocarpon - nightshade
S. mammosum - nipplefruit
S. marginatum - white-margined nightshade
S. mauritianum - earleaf nightshade
S. melanocerasum - garden huckleberry
S. melongena - eggplant
S. mucronatum - pepino
S. muricatum - pepino
S. nelsonii Dunal - Nelson's horsenettle
S. nigrescens - divine nightshade
S. nigrum - deadly nightshade
S. nudum - forest nightshade
S. parishii - Parish's nightshade
S. pericifolium
S. persicifolium - berengena de playa
S. peruvianum - Peruvian nightshade
S. phureja - nightshade
S. physalifolium - hairy nightshade
S. pimpinellifolium - currant tomato
S. pinnatisectum - tansyleaf nightshade
S. polygamum - cakalaka berry
S. pseudocapsicum - Jerusalem cherry
S. pseudogracile - glowing nightshade
S. pterocaulon
S. ptycanthum
S. ptychanthum Dunal - E. black nightshade
S. pyrifolium
S. quitoense - naranjilla
S. racemosum - canker berry
S. riedlei - Riedle's nightshade
S. robustum - shrubby nightshade
S. rostratum - Texas thistle
S. rugosum - tabacon aspero
S. sandwicense - Hawaii horsenettle
S. seaforthianum - Brazilian nightshade
S. sessiliflorum - cocona
S. sisymbriifolium - sticky nightshade
S. surattense - nightshade
S. tampicense - wetland nightshade
S. tenuilobatum - San Diego nightshade
S. tenuipes - fancy nightshade
S. torvum - devil's fig
S. triflorum Nutt - cutleaf nightshade
S. triquetrum - Texas nightshade
S. tuberosum - Irish potato
S. umbelliferum - bluewitch nightshade
S. viarum - tropical soda apple
S. villosum
S. viride - green nightshade
S. wallacei - Catalina nightshade
S. wendlandii - giant potatocreeper
S. woodburyi - Woodbury's nightshade
S. xanthi
S. xanti - purple nightshadeSolanum is a genus of annuals, perennials, sub-shrubs, shrubs and climbers. They often have attractive fruit and flowers. Most are poisonous, but several nonetheless bear edible fruit or other parts, such as the common foods potato and eggplant.
Species:
- Potato vine, Solanum crispum
- Garden tomato, Solanum lycopersicum
- Potato, Solanum tuberosum
- Eggplant, Solanum melongena
Synonyms and common names
Nightshade is any member of the genus Solanum. The name is also extended to the family Solanaceae.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Solanum."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bane | Hemlock, hellebore, nightshade, belladonna, henbane, aconite; banewort, bhang, ganja, hashish; Upas tree. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Nightshade |
| English words defined with "nightshade": Alkekengi, Alpine enchanter's nightshade, atropine ♦ Banewort, buffalo bur ♦ Circaea, Circaea alpina ♦ Death's-herb, Dwale ♦ Felonwort ♦ garden huckleberry, genus Circaea, genus Solanum, Great morel ♦ Morelle ♦ Petty morel, prairie berry, purple nightshade ♦ Quito orange ♦ silverleaf nightshade, silver-leaved nettle, silver-leaved nightshade, Solanine, Solanum, Solanum burbankii, Solanum elaeagnifolium, Solanum melanocerasum, Solanum nigrum guineese, Solanum rostratum, sunberry ♦ Three-leaved, trompillo, Turkey berry ♦ white horse nettle, Winter cherry, wonderberry, Wood nightshade. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "nightshade": egg-plant ♦ Grapes ♦ Insane Root. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "nightshade": Solanum. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Deadly Nightshade (1953) Flash III: Deadly Nightshade (1992) | |
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| "Nightshade" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 60.87% of the time. "Nightshade" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 60.87% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (proper) | 39.13% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 23 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "nightshade": alpine enchanter's nightshade ♦ ball nightshade ♦ bittersweet nightshade ♦ black nightshade ♦ climbing nightshade ♦ common nightshade ♦ deadly nightshade ♦ Enchanter's nightshade ♦ poisonous nightshade ♦ purple nightshade ♦ silverleaf nightshade ♦ stinking nightshade ♦ wood nightshade ♦ Woody nightshade. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "nightshade"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shprohë, helmarinë. (various references) | |
Arabic | نوع من الباذنجان (morel), عنب الثعلب نبات, البلادونة حشيشة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | куче грозде. (various references) | |
Czech | lilek (aubergine, egg-plant), blín (Henbane). (various references) | |
Danish | sort natskygge (black nightshade), galnebaer (belladona, belladonna, deadly nightshade, great morel), galnebær (deadly nightshade), bittersoed natskygge (bittersweet, woody nightshade), belladonna (belladona, belladonna, deadly nightshade, great morel). (various references) | |
Dutch | nachtschade. (various references) | |
Esperanto | solano. (various references) | |
Finnish | punakoiso (bittersweet, woody nightshade), lemmonmarja (belladona, belladonna, deadly nightshade, great morel), belladonna (belladona, belladonna, deadly nightshade, great morel). (various references) | |
French | morelle noire. (various references) | |
German | nachtschatten (black nightshade), Tollkirsche (belladonna, deadly nightshade). (various references) | |
Greek | στρύχνοσ (belladonna, bittersweet). (various references) | |
Hebrew | סול ום. (various references) | |
Hungarian | nadragulya (belladonna, deadly nightshade, mandrake). (various references) | |
Italian | solano. (various references) | |
Manx | lus y vaaish (belladonna, deadly nightshade), lus ny h-oie (enchanter's nightshade), croanreisht ghoo (black nightshade). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ightshadenay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | erva-moura (morel). (various references) | |
Russian | паслен. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | velebilje. (various references) | |
Spanish | hierba mora (black nightshade), dulcamara, belladona (belladonna, deadly nightshade). (various references) | |
Swedish | nattskatta. (various references) | |
Turkish | köpek üzümü, itüzümü. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | паслін. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cây lu lu đực cây benladdon, cây c dược cây kỳ nham. (various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Atropa belladonna, Atropa bella-donna, Atropa Belladonna L., Solanum, Solanum dulcamara, Solanum nigrum. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "nightshade": nightshades. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-h-h-i-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: sheathing. | |
-2 letters: deashing, gahnites, handiest, headings, insheath, sedating, steading. | |
-3 letters: agisted, dashing, destain, detains, easting, eatings, eighths, gahnite, gnashed, hadiths, handset, hashing, hasting, heading, heating, heights, highest, highted, ingates, ingesta, instead, nidgets, nighest, sainted, seating, shading, shantih, sheitan, sighted, stained, stanged, stengah, sthenia, teasing, thighed. | |
-4 letters: ageist, agents, ashing, danish, dating, deaths, deigns, design. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-h-h-i-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: nightshades. | |
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