nightshade family
61scopolamine — /skeuh pol euh meen , min, skoh peuh lam in/, n. Pharm. a colorless, syrupy, water soluble alkaloid, C17H21NO4, obtained from certain plants of the nightshade family, used chiefly as a sedative and mydriatic and to alleviate the symptoms of… …
62apple of Peru — noun 1. coarse South American herb grown for its blue and white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry • Syn: ↑shoo fly, ↑Nicandra physaloides • Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant • Member Holonyms: ↑Nicandra …
63bit´ter|sweet´ness — bit|ter|sweet «BIHT uhr SWEET», noun, adjective. –n. 1. a climbing plant with purple, blue, or white flowers and small, poisonous, scarlet berries; woody nightshade. It belongs to the nightshade family. 2. a climbing shrub of North America with… …
64bit|ter|sweet — «BIHT uhr SWEET», noun, adjective. –n. 1. a climbing plant with purple, blue, or white flowers and small, poisonous, scarlet berries; woody nightshade. It belongs to the nightshade family. 2. a climbing shrub of North America with greenish… …
65sol|a|na|ceous — «SOL uh NAY shuhs», adjective. belonging to the nightshade family: »Tobacco, potatoes, tomatoes, and petunias are solanaceous plants. ╂[< New Latin Solanaceae the family (< Solanum the typical genus < Latin sōlānum nightshade) + English… …
66Wildflowers of Soldiers Delight — The Soldiers Delight Natural Environment Area, consists of about convert|1900|acre|km2 of land in Owings Mills, Maryland, USA. cite web url = http://www.dnr.state.md.us/publiclands/central/soldiers.html title = Soldiers Delight Natural… …
67Flowering plant — Flowering plants Temporal range: Early Cretaceous Recent …
68Solanales — Taxobox name = Solanales image width = 240px image caption = Aubergine, Solanum melongena regnum = Plantae divisio = Magnoliophyta classis = Magnoliopsida ordo = Solanales ordo authority = Dumortier, 1829 subdivision ranks = Families subdivision …
69belladonna — noun Etymology: Italian, literally, beautiful lady Date: 1597 1. an Old World poisonous plant (Atropa belladonna) of the nightshade family having purple or green bell shaped flowers, glossy black berries, and root and leaves that yield atropine… …
70Nicotine — This article is about the chemical compound. For other uses, see Nicotine (disambiguation). Nicotine Systematic (IUPAC) name …
