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black_nightshade

black nightshade

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Noun

black nightshade (plural black nightshades)

  1. A Eurasian species of nightshade with black berries, Solanum nigrum, of Europe.
  2. Other similar members of a group of closely-related species from the Solanum nigrum complex:
    1. Solanum americanum (American black nightshade) of much of North America
    2. Solanum ptychanthum (eastern black nightshade) of the Caribbean region.

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