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Definition of Bittersweet nightshade
1. Noun. Poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America.
Group relationships: Genus Solanum, Solanum
Generic synonyms: Nightshade
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bittersweet Nightshade
Literary usage of Bittersweet nightshade
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British and Garden Botany: Consisting of Descriptions of the Flowering by Leo Hartley Grindon (1864)
"Suppose the botanical student, or any one curious in plants, to gather in the
hedge a cluster of the flowers of the bittersweet nightshade, not knowing what ..."
2. C.E. Hobbs' Botanical Hand-book: Of Common Local, English, Botanical and by Charles E. Hobbs (1876)
"Ls. and Ju. in ointment; det. Pl. and Fl. ton. Pl. ano. ; Ft. nar. see Phytolacca
decandra. Ft. eaten as food. Pl. ano. poi. Bittersweet, Nightshade see ..."
3. Report: New York by Otis Stuart (1904)
"Introduced from the southwest; Port Huron, CK Dodge. *1817. S. Dulcamara L.
Bittersweet. Nightshade. Becoming common, especially in low land and swamps. ..."
4. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"Europe, western Asia and northern Africa, nat. or possibly indigenous in [JS
Bittersweet, Nightshade, Climbing or Woody Nightshade, Amara- dulcis, ..."
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