WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
night′shade fam′ily,,
- the plant family Solanaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, trees, shrubs, and vines having alternate, simple or pinnate leaves, conspicuous flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including belladonna, eggplant, nightshade, peppers of the genus Capsicum, petunia, potato, tobacco, and tomato.
'nightshade family' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Jerusalem cherry
- angel's-trumpet
- apple of Peru
- atropine
- belladonna
- bittersweet
- black nightshade
- brunfelsia
- cape gooseberry
- capsicum
- cupflower
- currant tomato
- datura
- day jasmine
- eggplant
- flowering tobacco
- goldcup
- ground cherry
- henbane
- horse nettle
- jimson weed
- lady-of-the-night
- love apple
- mandrake
- marmalade bush
- matrimony vine
- nicotiana
- night jasmine
- painted tongue
- paradise flower
- pepino
- petunia
- potato
- potato vine
- scarlet eggplant
- scopolamine
- tamarillo
- thorn apple
- tobacco
- tobacco hornworm
- tobacco mosaic
- tobacco mosaic virus
- tomatillo
- tomato
- tomato hornworm
- tree tobacco
- whitecup
- willow-leaved jessamine
- winter cherry