stinking nightshade

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stinking nightshade - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Nightshade \Night"shade`\, n. [AS. nichtscadu.] (Bot.)
     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.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Deadly nightshade. Same as Belladonna
     (a) .
  
     Enchanter's nightshade. See under Enchanter.
  
     Stinking nightshade. See Henbane.
  
     Three-leaved nightshade. See Trillium.
        [1913 Webster]

  Henbane \Hen"bane`\, n. [Hen + bane.] (Bot.)
     A plant of the genus Hyoscyamus (Hyoscyamus niger). All
     parts of the plant are poisonous, and the leaves are used for
     the same purposes as belladonna. It is poisonous to domestic
     fowls; whence the name. Called also, stinking nightshade,
     from the fetid odor of the plant. See Hyoscyamus.
     [1913 Webster]

stinking nightshade - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  stinking nightshade
      n 1: poisonous fetid Old World herb having sticky hairy leaves
           and yellow-brown flowers; yields hyoscyamine and
           scopolamine [syn: henbane, black henbane, stinking nightshade
           , Hyoscyamus niger]