Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun horse_nettle

1 sense of horse nettle

Sense 1
horse nettle, ball nettle, bull nettle, ball nightshade, Solanum carolinense -- (coarse prickly weed having pale yellow flowers and yellow berrylike fruit; common throughout southern and eastern United States)
       => nightshade -- (any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit)