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horse nettle

DEFINITIONS OF: horse nettle

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n coarse prickly weed having pale yellow flowers and yellow berrylike fruit; common throughout southern and eastern United States

Synonyms:
Solanum carolinense, ball nettle, ball nightshade, bull nettle
Type of:
nightshade
any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit
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