Solanum nigrum

Definitions of Solanum nigrum

1. noun

   Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible
   synonyms: black nightshade, common nightshade, poison-berry, poisonberry

   types:

   Solanum burbankii, Solanum melanocerasum, Solanum nigrum guineese, garden huckleberry, sunberry, wonderberry

   improved garden variety of black nightshade having small edible orange or black berries

   type of:

   nightshade

   any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit