poison-berry

Definitions of poison-berry

1. noun

   Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible
   synonyms: Solanum nigrum, black nightshade, common nightshade, poisonberry

   types:

   Solanum burbankii, Solanum melanocerasum, Solanum nigrum guineese, garden huckleberry, sunberry, wonderberry

   improved garden variety of black nightshade having small edible orange or black berries

   type of:

   nightshade

   any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit