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deadly nightshade

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.54 in modern English

Syllables
dead-ly night-shade
IPA
29
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The plant Atropa belladonna, a perennial shrub of the nightshade family that contains high concentrations of the alkaloid atropine which can be deadly if taken in excess.

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Inflected Forms

deadly nightshades (plural)

Synonyms

belladonna poisonberry bittersweet bittersweet nightshade climbing nightshade poisonous nightshade woody nightshade solanum dulcamara

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What does deadly nightshade mean?
The plant Atropa belladonna, a perennial shrub of the nightshade family that contains high concentrations of the alkaloid atropine which can be deadly if taken in excess.

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