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purple nightshade

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.54 in modern English

Syllables
pur-ple night-shade
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
3
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

n

weedy nightshade with silvery foliage and violet or blue or white flowers; roundish berry widely used to curdle milk; central United States to South America

Synonyms

trompillo white horse nettle prairie berry silverleaf nightshade silver-leaved nightshade silver-leaved nettle Solanum elaeagnifolium

Questions

What does purple nightshade mean?
weedy nightshade with silvery foliage and violet or blue or white flowers; roundish berry widely used to curdle milk; central United States to South America

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