woody nightshade

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

  Woody \Wood"y\, a.
     1. Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land. "The woody
        wilderness." --Bryant.
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              Secret shades
              Of woody Ida's inmost grove.          --Milton.
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     2. Consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber;
        ligneous; as, the woody parts of plants.
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     3. Of or pertaining to woods; sylvan. [R.] "Woody nymphs,
        fair Hamadryades." --Spenser.
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     Woody fiber. (Bot.)
        (a) Fiber or tissue consisting of slender, membranous
            tubes tapering at each end.
        (b) A single wood cell. See under Wood. --Goodale.
  
     Woody nightshade. (Bot.). See Bittersweet, 3
        (a) .
  
     Woody pear (Bot.), the inedible, woody, pear-shaped fruit
        of several Australian proteaceous trees of the genus
        Xylomelum; -- called also wooden pear.
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woody nightshade - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  woody nightshade
      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]