nightshade

English

Etymology

From Middle English nyȝtschade, niȝteschode, nyght shade, from Old English nihtsċada, corresponding to night +‎ shade. Compare German Nachtschatten.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaɪt.ʃeɪd/

Noun

nightshade (plural nightshades)

1. Any of the poisonous plants belonging to the genus Solanum, especially black nightshade or woody nightshade.
2. (colloquial) Any plant of the wider Solanaceae family, including the nightshades as well as tomato, potato, eggplant, and deadly nightshade.
3. Belladonna or deadly nightshade, Atropa belladonna.
4. Any of several plants likened to nightshade, usually because of similar dark-colored berries.

Derived terms

• African nightshades (Solanum spp.)
• alpine enchanter's nightshade
• American nightshades
• Bahama nightshade (Solanum bahamense)
• ball nightshades (Solanum carolinense)
• beaked nightshade (Solanum rostratum)
• bindweed nightshade (Circaea spp.)
• bitter nightshade, bittersweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara)
• black nightshade (Solanum nigrum)
• blue nightshade (Solanum dulcamara)
• buffalobur nightshade (Solanum rostratum)
• climbing nightshade (Solanum dulcamara)
• common nightshade (Solanum nigrum)
• cutleaf nightshade (Solanum triflorum)
• deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna, Solanum dulcamara)
• enchanter's nightshade (Circaea spp.)
• Ethiopian nightshade (Solanum aethiopicum)
• fetid nightshade (Hyoscyamus niger)
• garden nightshade (Solanum nigrum)
• green nightshade (Solanum sarrachoides, Solanum physalifolium)
• hairy nightshade (Solanum spp.)
• hoe nightshade (Solanum sarrachoides, Solanum physalifolium)
• Indian nightshade (Solanum aculeatissimum)
• Jamaican nightshade (Solanum jamaicense)
• lance-leaved nightshade (Solanum lanceifolium)
• leafy-fruited nightshade (Solanum sarrachoides)
• Malabar nightshade (Basella alba)
• melon-leaved nightshade (Solanum heterodoxum)
• orangeberry nightshade (Solanum lanceolatum)
• prickly nightshade (Solanum torvum)
• red nightshade (Solanum villosum; Phytolacca americana)
• redberry nightshade (Solanum campechiense)
• shrubby nightshade, (Solanum robustum)
• silver-leaved nightshade, silverleaf nightshade, silver-leaf nightshade (Solanum elaeagnifolium)
• small enchanter's nightshade
• small nightshade (Solanum triflorum)
• sodaapple nightshade (Solanum aculeastrum)
• spiny nightshade (Solanum rostratum)
• sticky nightshade (Solanum sisymbriifolium)
• stinking nightshade (Hyoscyamus niger)
• tall nightshade (Solanum giganteum; Solanum chenopodioides)
• Torrey's nightshade (Solanum dimidiatum)
• watermelon nightshade (Solanum citrullifolium)
• West Indian nightshade (Solanum ptychanthum)
• wetland nightshade (Solanum tampicense)
• white-margined nightshade (Solanum marginatum)
• woody nightshade (Solanum dulcamara)
• woolly nightshade (Solanum mauritianum; Solanum villosum)
• yellow nightshade (Solanum villosum; Physalis crassifolia)

Translations

plant of genus Solanum

• Albanian: therpelë (sq) du
• Armenian: մորմ (hy) (morm)
• Bulgarian: кучешко грозде n (kučeško grozde)
• Catalan: morella f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 茄屬植物／茄属植物

• Czech: lilek (cs) m
• Dutch: nachtschade (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: solano
• Finnish: koiso (fi)
• French: morelle (fr) f
• German: Nachtschattengewächs (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient: στρύχνον n (strúkhnon)

• Hungarian: csucsor (hu), ebszőlő (hu)
• Irish: lus na hoíche m
• Latin: sōlānum n, loba f
• Lithuanian: kiauliauogė
• Macedonian: зрнец m (zrnec)
• Maori: raupeti, remuroa
• Old English: hundesberle
• Polish: psianka (pl) f
• Russian: паслён (ru) m (pasljón)
• Spanish: solanácea f
• Swedish: nattskatta c, potatisväxt c
• Ukrainian: паслі́н m (paslín), пасльо́н m (paslʹón)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

deadly nightshade — see deadly nightshade

See also

• petit morel, petty morel

References

• nightshade on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Solanaceae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Solanaceae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons