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woody nightshade
woody nightshade
noun
Also called: bittersweet.a scrambling woody Eurasian solanaceous plant, Solanum dulcamara, having purple flowers with recurved petals and a protruding cone of yellow anthers and producing poisonous red berry-like fruits
Word History and Origins
Origin of woody nightshade1
Example Sentences
The green and crimson berries on the former, when the summer begins to wane, are rivalled only by those of the charming woody nightshade.
The woody nightshade they knew very well, having been warned long ago against the berries.
Then a hedgerow with woody nightshade and long blue vetch; then the green night of a little wood.
In some places the light and tender-leaved woody nightshade, whose berries in bunches of crimson and green are so pretty in autumn, impart a spring-like appearance to this hedgerow.
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