POISONBERRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does poisonberry mean? 

• POISONBERRY (noun)
  The noun POISONBERRY has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: POISONBERRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POISONBERRY (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 edible

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

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

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)