horse nettle

noun

: a coarse prickly weed (Solanum carolinense) of the nightshade family with bright yellow fruit resembling berries

Examples of horse nettle in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The horse nettle fruits and most other parts of the plant are poisonous to varying degrees from the toxic alkaloid solanine. —

Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 13 Aug. 2019

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