nightshade
/ˈnaɪt.ʃeɪd/
nightshade noun: any of the poisonous plants belonging to the genus Solanum, especially black nightshade or woody nightshade.
Noun
nightshade (plural nightshades)
- Any of the poisonous plants belonging to the genus Solanum, especially black nightshade or woody nightshade.
- Any plant of the wider Solanaceae family, including the nightshades as well as tomato, potato, eggplant, and deadly nightshade.
- Belladonna or deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna).
- Any of several plants likened to nightshade, usually because of similar dark-colored berries.
nightshade meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Kannada and Arabic
nightshade in Tamil
- இரவில் மலருஞ் செடியினம்
nightshade in Bengali
- ধুতুরা জাতীয় বিষাক্ত গাছ
nightshade in Kannada
- ಗುಳ್ಳ, ಕಂಟಕಾರಿಕೆ, ಅಂಟಾಳಗಿಡ
nightshade in Arabic
- plant of genus Solanum
- مَغْد maḡd, حَدَق ḥadaq
More languagesFewer languages
- nightshade in Malay
- terung
- nightshade in Vietnamese
- cà
Forms of nightshade
| plural | nightshades |
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Origin of nightshade
From Middle English nyȝtschade, niȝteschode, nyght shade, from Old English nihtsċada, from Proto-West Germanic *nahtskadō (“nightshade”), corresponding to night + shade. Compare Dutch nachtschade (“nightshade”), German Nachtschatten (“nightshade”).
Words formed from nightshade
- African nightshade
- American nightshade
- Argentine nightshade
- Bahama nightshade
- ball nightshade
- beaked nightshade
- bindweed nightshade
- bitter nightshade
- bittersweet nightshade
- black nightshade
- blue nightshade
- buffalobur nightshade
- climbing nightshade
- common nightshade
- cutleaf nightshade
- deadly nightshade
- enchanter's nightshade
- Ethiopian nightshade
- fetid nightshade
- garden nightshade
- green nightshade
- hairy nightshade
- hoe nightshade
- Indian nightshade
- Jamaican nightshade
- lance-leaved nightshade
- leafy-fruited nightshade
- Malabar nightshade
- melon-leaved nightshade
- orangeberry nightshade
- prickly nightshade
- red nightshade
- redberry nightshade
- shrubby nightshade
- silver-leaved nightshade
- silverleaf nightshade
- silver-leaf nightshade
- small nightshade
- sodaapple nightshade
- spiny nightshade
- sticky nightshade
- stinking nightshade
- tall nightshade
- Torrey's nightshade
- watermelon nightshade
- West Indian nightshade
- wetland nightshade
- white-margined nightshade
- woody nightshade
- woolly nightshade
- yellow nightshade
Phrases with nightshade
Questions about nightshade
- What does nightshade mean?
- Nightshade means any of the poisonous plants belonging to the genus Solanum, especially black nightshade or woody nightshade.
- What is nightshade in Tamil?
- Nightshade in Tamil is இரவில் மலருஞ் செடியினம். See Nightshade meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is nightshade?
- Nightshade is a noun.
- How do you pronounce nightshade?
- Nightshade is pronounced /ˈnaɪt.ʃeɪd/.
- What is the plural of nightshade?
- The plural of nightshade is nightshades.
Words near nightshade in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: nightshade (page history and authors); nightshade (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nightshade (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nightshade (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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