solanum

British  

/ səʊˈleɪnəm /

noun

1. any tree, shrub, or herbaceous plant of the mainly tropical solanaceous genus Solanum: includes the potato, aubergine, and certain nightshades

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Etymology

Origin of solanum

C16: from Latin: nightshade

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Example Sentences

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solanum

"She is not Aunt Marthe," she said slowly; "I suppose Louis would call it a case of the solanum and the potato blossom, but she is one of the Lord's plants all the same."

From A Beautiful Possibility by Edith Ferguson Black

Hasselquist is of opinion that the wild-grapes mentioned by the prophet Isaiah must be the hoary night-shade, or solanum incanum, because it is common in Egypt, Palestine, and Syria.

From Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Michael Russell

I found on the low tract, between Burradorgang and our camp, a new curious species of solanum, so completely covered with yellow prickles that its flowers and leaves could scarcely be seen.**

From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 by Thomas Mitchell

And a new solanum, with spines the colour of gold.

From A Trip to Paris in July and August 1792 by Richard Twiss

At Kalimpong there was a large and comfortable Dak bungalow, surrounded by a well-kept garden full of roses and scarlet hibiscus with a beautiful and large-flowered mauve solanum growing up the pillars on the verandah.

From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury

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