enchanter's nightshade
English
Noun
enchanter's nightshade (plural enchanter's nightshades)
- Any of the genus Circaea of low inconspicuous perennial plants, found in damp, shady places.
- 2012, Helen Yemm, "Thorny problems: getting rid of liverwort and enchanter's nightshade" in The Telegraph, 10 July, 2012,
- Given space and the right conditions, however, enchanter’s nightshade does spread by fine, brittle, white running rhizomes.
- 2012, Helen Yemm, "Thorny problems: getting rid of liverwort and enchanter's nightshade" in The Telegraph, 10 July, 2012,
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for enchanter's nightshade in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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