nightshade vs common nightshade

common nightshade vs nightshade

nightshade and common nightshade both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
nightshade	Yes	No	No	No
common nightshade	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, common nightshade is a hyponym of nightshade; that is, common nightshade is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than nightshade:

nightshade: any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit
common nightshade: Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible

Other hyponyms of nightshade include kangaroo apple, poroporo, Solanum aviculare, ball nettle, ball nightshade, bull nettle, horse nettle, Solanum carolinense, bittersweet, bittersweet nightshade, climbing nightshade, deadly nightshade, poisonous nightshade, Solanum dulcamara, woody nightshade, prairie berry, purple nightshade, silver-leaved nettle, silver-leaved nightshade, silverleaf nightshade, Solanum elaeagnifolium, trompillo, white horse nettle, African holly, Solanum giganteum, black nightshade, poison-berry, poisonberry, Solanum nigrum, Jerusalem cherry, Madeira winter cherry, Solanum pseudocapsicum, winter cherry, buffalo bur, Solanum rostratum.

nightshade (noun)	common nightshade (noun)
any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit	Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible

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