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Definition of Nightshades
1. nightshade [n] - See also: nightshade
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nightshades
Literary usage of Nightshades
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"Enchanter's nightshades. Two herbs of woodland districts, known as enchanter's
nightshades, are grouped in the evening- primrose ..."
2. Essays and Letters by John Ruskin (1894)
"The nightshades are, in fact, primroses with a curse upon them ; and a sign set
in their petals, by which the deadly and condemned flowers may always be ..."
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