nightshade

English

Etymology

From Middle English nyȝtschade, niȝteschode, nyght shade, from Old English nihtsċada, from Proto-West Germanic *nahtskadō (“nightshade”), corresponding to night +‎ shade. Compare Dutch nachtschade (“nightshade”), German Nachtschatten (“nightshade”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaɪt.ʃeɪd/

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Noun

nightshade (plural nightshades)

1. Any of the poisonous plants belonging to the genus Solanum, especially black nightshade or woody nightshade.
2. (colloquial) Any plant of the wider Solanaceae family, including the nightshades as well as tomato, potato, eggplant, and deadly nightshade.
3. Belladonna or deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna).
4. Any of several plants likened to nightshade, usually because of similar dark-colored berries.

Derived terms

• African nightshades (Solanum spp.)
• American nightshades
• Argentine nightshade
• Bahama nightshade (Solanum bahamense)
• ball nightshades (Solanum carolinense)
• beaked nightshade (Solanum rostratum)
• bindweed nightshade (Circaea spp.)
• bitter nightshade, bittersweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara)
• black nightshade (Solanum nigrum)
• blue nightshade (Solanum dulcamara)
• buffalobur nightshade (Solanum rostratum)
• climbing nightshade (Solanum dulcamara)
• common nightshade (Solanum nigrum)
• cutleaf nightshade (Solanum triflorum)
• deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna, Solanum dulcamara)
• enchanter's nightshade (Circaea spp.)
• Ethiopian nightshade (Solanum aethiopicum)
• fetid nightshade (Hyoscyamus niger)
• garden nightshade (Solanum nigrum)
• green nightshade (Solanum sarrachoides, Solanum physalifolium)
• hairy nightshade (Solanum spp.)
• hoe nightshade (Solanum sarrachoides, Solanum physalifolium)
• Indian nightshade (Solanum aculeatissimum)
• Jamaican nightshade (Solanum jamaicense)
• lance-leaved nightshade (Solanum lanceifolium)
• leafy-fruited nightshade (Solanum sarrachoides)
• Malabar nightshade (Basella alba)
• melon-leaved nightshade (Solanum heterodoxum)
• orangeberry nightshade (Solanum lanceolatum)
• prickly nightshade (Solanum torvum)
• red nightshade (Solanum villosum; Phytolacca americana)
• redberry nightshade (Solanum campechiense)
• shrubby nightshade, (Solanum robustum)
• silver-leaved nightshade, silverleaf nightshade, silver-leaf nightshade (Solanum elaeagnifolium)
• small nightshade (Solanum triflorum)
• sodaapple nightshade (Solanum aculeastrum)
• spiny nightshade (Solanum rostratum)
• sticky nightshade (Solanum sisymbriifolium)
• stinking nightshade (Hyoscyamus niger)
• tall nightshade (Solanum giganteum; Solanum chenopodioides)
• Torrey's nightshade (Solanum dimidiatum)
• watermelon nightshade (Solanum citrullifolium)
• West Indian nightshade (Solanum ptychanthum)
• wetland nightshade (Solanum tampicense)
• white-margined nightshade (Solanum marginatum)
• woody nightshade (Solanum dulcamara)
• woolly nightshade (Solanum mauritianum; Solanum villosum)
• yellow nightshade (Solanum villosum; Physalis crassifolia)

Translations

plant of genus Solanum

• Albanian: therpelë (sq) du
• Arabic: مَغْد m (maḡd), حَدَق m (ḥadaq)
• Armenian: մորմ (hy) (morm)
• Bulgarian: кучешко грозде n (kučeško grozde)
• Catalan: morella f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 茄屬植物 / 茄属植物

• Czech: lilek (cs) m
• Dutch: nachtschade (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: solano
• Fijian: boro
• Finnish: koiso (fi)
• French: morelle (fr) f
• German: Nachtschattengewächs (de) n, Nachtschatten m
• Greek: σολάνο n (soláno), στρύχνος (el) m (strýchnos)

  Ancient Greek: στρύχνον n (strúkhnon)

• Hebrew: סוֹלָנוּם m (solanum)
• Hungarian: csucsor (hu), ebszőlő (hu)
• Irish: lus na hoíche m
• Latin: sōlānum n, loba f
• Lithuanian: kiauliauogė
• Macedonian: зрнец m (zrnec)
• Malay: terung (any Solanum species in general)
• Māori: poro (any Solanum plant, survives in compound words), raupeti, remuroa
• Old English: hundesberle
• Polish: psianka (pl) f
• Rarotongan: poro (any Solanum species in general)
• Russian: паслён (ru) m (pasljón)
• Samoan: polo (any Solanum species in general)
• Spanish: solanácea f
• Swedish: nattskatta c, potatisväxt c
• Ukrainian: паслі́н m (paslín), пасльо́н m (paslʹón)
• Vietnamese: cà (vi)

deadly nightshade — see deadly nightshade

See also

• petit morel, petty morel
• solano

References

• nightshade on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Solanaceae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Solanaceae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• solano on Real Academia Española