HORSE NETTLE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Coarse prickly weed having pale yellow flowers and yellow berrylike fruit; common throughout southern and eastern United States

Synonyms:

ball nettle; ball nightshade; bull nettle; horse nettle; Solanum carolinense

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("horse nettle" is a kind of...):

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

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