# nightshade
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English nyȝtschade, niȝteschode, nyght shade, from Old English nihtsċada, corresponding to night +‎ shade. Compare German Nachtschatten.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnaɪt.ʃeɪd/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

nightshade (plural nightshades)
* Any of the poisonous plants belonging to the genus Solanum, especially black nightshade or woody nightshade.
* (colloquial) 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.
* Wind that blows from where the sun rises.
    Synonym: rabiazorras
* (regional, Province of Burgos and Basque Country, Spain) Hot and suffocating wind, wherever is its course.

#### Derived terms

* African nightshades (Solanum spp.)
* alpine enchanter's nightshade
* American nightshades
* Bahama nightshade (Solanum bahamense)
* ball nightshades (Solanum carolinense)
* beaked nightshade (Solanum rostratum)
* bindweed nightshade (Circaea spp.)
* bitter nightshade, bittersweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara)
* black nightshade (Solanum nigrum)
* blue nightshade (Solanum dulcamara)
* buffalobur nightshade (Solanum rostratum)
* climbing nightshade (Solanum dulcamara)
* common nightshade (Solanum nigrum)
* cutleaf nightshade (Solanum triflorum)
* deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna, Solanum dulcamara)
* enchanter's nightshade (Circaea spp.)
* Ethiopian nightshade (Solanum aethiopicum)
* fetid nightshade (Hyoscyamus niger)
* garden nightshade (Solanum nigrum)
* green nightshade (Solanum sarrachoides, Solanum physalifolium)
* hairy nightshade (Solanum spp.)
* hoe nightshade (Solanum sarrachoides, Solanum physalifolium)
* Indian nightshade (Solanum aculeatissimum)
* Jamaican nightshade (Solanum jamaicense)
* lance-leaved nightshade (Solanum lanceifolium)
* leafy-fruited nightshade (Solanum sarrachoides)
* Malabar nightshade (Basella alba)
* melon-leaved nightshade (Solanum heterodoxum)
* orangeberry nightshade (Solanum lanceolatum)
* prickly nightshade (Solanum torvum)
* red nightshade (Solanum villosum; Phytolacca americana)
* redberry nightshade (Solanum campechiense)
* shrubby nightshade, (Solanum robustum)
* silver-leaved nightshade, silverleaf nightshade, silver-leaf nightshade (Solanum elaeagnifolium)
* small enchanter's nightshade
* small nightshade (Solanum triflorum)
* sodaapple nightshade (Solanum aculeastrum)
* spiny nightshade (Solanum rostratum)
* sticky nightshade (Solanum sisymbriifolium)
* stinking nightshade (Hyoscyamus niger)
* tall nightshade (Solanum giganteum; Solanum chenopodioides)
* Torrey's nightshade (Solanum dimidiatum)
* watermelon nightshade (Solanum citrullifolium)
* West Indian nightshade (Solanum ptychanthum)
* wetland nightshade (Solanum tampicense)
* white-margined nightshade (Solanum marginatum)
* woody nightshade (Solanum dulcamara)
* woolly nightshade (Solanum mauritianum; Solanum villosum)
* yellow nightshade (Solanum villosum; Physalis crassifolia)

#### Translations
### See also

* petit morel, petty morel

### References

* nightshade on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Solanaceae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
* Category:Solanaceae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
* solano on Real Academia Española