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    POISONBERRY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

    black nightshade; common nightshade; poison-berry; poisonberry; Solanum nigrum

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("poisonberry" is a kind of...):

    nightshade (any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "poisonberry"):

    garden huckleberry; Solanum burbankii; Solanum melanocerasum; Solanum nigrum guineese; sunberry; wonderberry (improved garden variety of black nightshade having small edible orange or black berries)

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