poison-berry vs nightshade

nightshade vs poison-berry

poison-berry and nightshade both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
poison-berry	Yes	No	No	No
nightshade	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, nightshade is a hypernym of poison-berry; that is, nightshade is a word with a broader meaning than poison-berry:

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

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

Difference between poison-berry and nightshade

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