nightshade

English

Etymology

From Middle English nyȝtschade, niȝteschode, nyght shade, from Old English nihtsċada, corresponding to night +‎ shade. Compare German Nachtschatten.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaɪtʃeɪd/

Noun

nightshade (plural nightshades)

1. (botany) Any of the poisonous plants belonging to the genus Solanum, especially black nightshade or woody nightshade.
2. (botany, 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
• Bahama nightshade ()
• ball nightshades ()
• beaked nightshade ()
• bindweed nightshade (Circaea spp.)
• bitter nightshade, bittersweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara)
• black nightshade (Solanum nigrum)
• blue nightshade (Solanum dulcamara)
• buffalobur nightshade ()
• climbing nightshade (Solanum dulcamara)
• common nightshade (Solanum nigrum)
• cutleaf nightshade ()
• deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna, Solanum dulcamara)
• enchanter's nightshade (Circaea spp.)
• Ethiopian nightshade ()
• fetid nightshade (Hyoscyamus niger)
• garden nightshade (Solanum nigrum)
• hairy nightshade (Solanum spp.)
• Indian nightshade ()

• Jamaican nightshade ()
• lance-leaved nightshade ()
• Malabar nightshade (Basella alba)
• melon-leaved nightshade ()
• orangeberry nightshade ()
• prickly nightshade ()
• redberry nightshade ()
• shrubby nightshade ()
• silver-leaved nightshade, silver-leaved nightshade ()
• small nightshade ()
• sodaapple nightshade ()
• spiny nightshade ()
• sticky nightshade ()
• stinking nightshade (Hyoscyamus niger)
• Torrey's nightshade ()
• watermelon nightshade ()
• West Indian nightshade ()
• wetland nightshade ()
• white-margined nightshade ()
• woody nightshade (Solanum dulcamara)

Translations

plant of genus Solanum

• Armenian: մորմ (hy) (morm)
• Catalan: morella f
• Czech: lilek (cs) m
• Dutch: nachtschade (nl) m or f
• Finnish: koiso (fi)
• French: morelle (fr) f
• German: Nachtschatten m
• Hungarian: csucsor (hu), ebszőlő (hu)
• Irish: lus na hoíche m
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• Lithuanian: kiauliauogė
• Maori: raupeti, remuroa
• Old English: hundesberle
• Polish: psianka (pl) f
• Russian: паслён (ru) m (pasljón)
• Spanish: solanácea f
• Swedish: nattskatta c, potatisväxt c
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

deadly nightshade — see deadly nightshade

See also

• petit morel, petty morel