Crossword-Solution: NIGHTSHADE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Nightshade | n. | A common name of many species of the genus Solanum, given esp. to the Solanum nigrum, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “NIGHTSHADE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Belladonna or bittersweet | 1 answer |
| most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit | 1 answer |
| dwale | 1 answer |
| any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum | 1 answer |
| Tomato's family | 1 answer |
| Plant family that includes tomatoes and eggplant | 1 answer |
| Petunia's plant family | 1 answer |
| Family that includes the potato, eggplant and tobacco | 1 answer |
| Color for a "Starry" Dutch classic? | 1 answer |
| ATROPA | 1 answer |
| BRANCHED herbaceous plant | 2 answers |
| Mandrake, e.g. | 3 answers |
| CHALKY soil-loving plant | 3 answers |
| black nightshade | 3 answers |
| BELLADONNA | 3 answers |
| BLACK-berried plant | 5 answers |
| poisonous plant | 52 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with NIGHTSHADE (5)
Through dreary beds of tangled fern, Through groves of nightshade dark and dern, Over the grass and through the brake, Where toils the ant and sleeps the snake; Now o'er the violet's azure flush He skips along in lightsome mood; And now he thrids the bramble bush, Till its points are dyed in fairy blood.
Accordingly, she collected nine different kinds of enchanters’ nightshade, added some salt, which she first bewitched, and, doing all up in a cloth into the shape of a fluffy ball, sent it after them on the wings of the wind, saying: “Whirlwind!--mother of the wind! Lend thy aid ‘gainst her who sinned! Carry with thee this magic ball.
For the hedgerows in those days shut out one’s view, even on the better-managed farms; and this afternoon, the dog-roses were tossing out their pink wreaths, the nightshade was in its yellow and purple glory, the pale honeysuckle grew out of reach, peeping high up out of a holly bush, and over all an ash or a sycamore every now and then threw its shadow across the path.
Visit the poor, by all means, and give them tea and barley-water, but don't do it as if you were administering a bowl of deadly nightshade.
Alethia remembered how Lady Sylvia Broomgate, in _Nightshade Court_, had pretended to be bolted with by her horse up to the front door of a threatened county magnate, and had whispered a warning in his ear which saved him from being the victim of foul murder.
Quotes with NIGHTSHADE (3)
Would not the earth, quickened to an evil purpose by the sympathy of his eye, greet him with poisonous shrubs... Would he not suddenly sink into the earth, leaving a barren and blasted spot, where, in due course of time, would be seen deadly nightshade, dogwood, henbane, and whatever else of vegetable wickedness the climate could produce, all flourishing with hideous luxuriance?
First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys. Not that all months aren't rare. But one strange year, halloween came early.... don't you ditch me jim nightshade... don't talk death. Someone might hear...
The expression in her eyes was bitter as nightshade. 'You ask me about regret? Let me tell you a few things about regret, my darling. There is no end to it. You cannot find the beginning of the chain that brought us from there to here. Should you regret the whole chain, and the air between, or each link separately, as if you could uncouple them? Do you regret the beginning which ended so badly, or just the ending itself? I've given more thought to this question than you can begin to imagine.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1991–2023).