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noun

Nightshade n. (Bot.) A common name of many species of the genus Solanum, given esp. to the Solanum nigrum, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous.

Deadly nightshade. Same as Belladonna (a).

Enchanter's nightshade. See under Enchanter.

Stinking nightshade. See Henbane.

Three-leaved nightshade. See Trillium.

adjective

deadly adj.

Capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive; certain or likely to cause death; as, a deadly blow or wound.

Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile; flagitious; as, deadly enemies. "Thy assailant is quick, skillful, and deadly."

Subject to death; mortal. (Obs.) "The image of a deadly man."

Deadly nightshade (Bot.), a poisonous plant; belladonna. See under Nightshade.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Deadly nightshade" Quotes from Famous Books

... to make on parent's allowing the Deadly Nightshade (Atropa Belladonna) to grow in ...

— Advice to a Mother on the Management of her Children • Pye Henry Chavasse

... continued. Yes, he was WRONG, for there before him, in the depths of the forest, were two children. They were looking at a bush of "pizon berries,"—the deadly nightshade, as it was fitly called,—and one was warning the other of ...

— A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories • Bret Harte

... salubrious labels, "The Poor Man's Friend," or "The Rights of Labour," you could no more have found one of them lurking in the drawers of the kitchen dressers in Hazeldean than you would have found the deadly nightshade on the flower-stands in the drawing-room of the Hall. As for the revolutionary beerhouse, there was no need to apply to the magistrates to shut it up,—it shut itself up before the week ...

— My Novel, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... way," said Mrs. Reist gently. "There are weeds everywhere, even in this Garden Spot. Why, I found a stalk of deadly nightshade in ...

— Amanda - A Daughter of the Mennonites • Anna Balmer Myers

... belladonna (deadly nightshade) Poisonous Eurasian perennial herb (Atropa belladonna) with solitary, nodding, purplish-brown, bell-shaped flowers and glossy black berries. An alkaloidal extract of ...

— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter