poison-berry (n.)

  1. Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible

    [ Syn: black nightshade , common nightshade , poisonberry , solanum nigrum ]

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