solanum dulcamara

5 definitions found

solanum dulcamara - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Bittersweet \Bit"ter*sweet`\, n.
     1. Anything which is bittersweet.
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     2. A kind of apple so called. --Gower.
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     3. (Bot.)
        (a) A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries
            (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole
            plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish
            and then bitter. The branches are the officinal
            dulcamara.
        (b) An American woody climber (Celastrus scandens),
            whose yellow capsules open late in autumn, and
            disclose the red aril which covers the seeds; -- also
            called Roxbury waxwork.
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  Dulcamara \Dul`ca*ma"ra\, n. [NL., fr. L. dulcis sweet + amarus
     bitter.] (Bot.)
     A plant (Solanum Dulcamara). See Bittersweet, n., 3
     (a) .
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  Dulcamarin \Dul`ca*ma"rin\, n. (Chem.)
     A glucoside extracted from the bittersweet (Solanum Dulcamara
     ), as a yellow amorphous substance. It probably
     occasions the compound taste. See Bittersweet, 3
     (a) .
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  Felonwort \Fel"on*wort`\, n. (Bot.)
     The bittersweet nightshade (Solanum Dulcamara). See
     Bittersweet.
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solanum dulcamara - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Solanum dulcamara
      n 1: poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers
           and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North
           America [syn: bittersweet, bittersweet nightshade,
           climbing nightshade, deadly nightshade, poisonous nightshade
           , woody nightshade, Solanum dulcamara]