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Definition of Purple nightshade
1. Noun. Weedy nightshade with silvery foliage and violet or blue or white flowers; roundish berry widely used to curdle milk; central United States to South America.
Generic synonyms: Nightshade
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purple Nightshade
Literary usage of Purple nightshade
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. London Society edited by James Hogg, Florence Marryat (1873)
"... bordered with hedges in which the bramble flower and the woodbine have joined
issue to pull the wild roses and the purple nightshade to the ground, ..."
2. Corona and Coronet: Being a Narrative of the Amherst Eclipse Expedition to by Mabel Loomis Todd (1899)
"... orchids were seen; and graceful clusters of purple nightshade were now and
again turning into green and yellow and crimson berries. ..."
3. The Garden's Story: For Pleasures and Trials of an Amateur Gardener by George Herman Ellwanger (1889)
"In the swamp further on, where virgin's-bower and purple nightshade wreath their
festoons, there streams a veritable sunset of color. ..."
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