common nightshade

Noun
  1. Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible (synset 112917067)
    is a type of: nightshade - any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit
    subtypes: garden huckleberry, solanum burbankii, solanum melanocerasum, solanum nigrum guineese, sunberry, wonderberry - improved garden variety of black nightshade having small edible orange or black berries
    same as: black nightshade, poison-berry, poisonberry, solanum nigrum

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