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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. 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.