nightshade vs winter cherry

winter cherry vs nightshade

nightshade and winter cherry both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
nightshade	Yes	No	No	No
winter cherry	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, winter cherry is a hyponym of nightshade; that is, winter cherry 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
winter cherry: small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit

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, common nightshade, poison-berry, poisonberry, Solanum nigrum, Jerusalem cherry, Madeira winter cherry, Solanum pseudocapsicum, buffalo bur, Solanum rostratum.

nightshade (noun)	winter cherry (noun)
any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit	small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit
	Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx

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