nightshade
/nahyt-sheyd/US // ˈnaɪtˌʃeɪd //UK // (ˈnaɪtˌʃeɪd) //
夜色中的植物,夜色朦胧中,夜色朦胧中的小草,夜色朦胧中的小花草
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : any of various plants of the genus Solanum, especially the black nightshade or the bittersweet.
- : any of various other related plants, as the deadly nightshade.
Examples
An alkaloid discovered by Brandes in atropa belladonna or deadly nightshade.
We do not place among them that popular plant, the potato, though it has the blood of the nightshade in its veins.
Webster recrossed the woods as he had entered it, waded through the nightshade and climbed the fence under the dark tree.
Some berries of several plants belonging to the nightshade family have this peculiarity, as well as some of the cucurbits.
From these grounds men have expelled the poison ivy, the deadly nightshade, all burdocks and thistles.
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