'Solanum Dulcamara' definitions:

Definition of 'Solanum dulcamara'

noun

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]

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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) . [1913 Webster]

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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) . [1913 Webster]

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Felonwort \Fel"on*wort`\, n. (Bot.) The bittersweet nightshade (Solanum Dulcamara). See Bittersweet. [1913 Webster]

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Bittersweet \Bit"ter*sweet`\, n.
1. Anything which is bittersweet. [1913 Webster]
2. A kind of apple so called. --Gower. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]