Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
maurelle
English translation:
black nightshade
Added to glossary by
NancyLynn
Nov 14, 2003 20:21
20 yrs ago
French term
maurelle
French to English
Other
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noix de galles à l'eau
maurelle
extraits de cassel
pouliot
niaouli
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noix de galles à l'eau
maurelle
extraits de cassel
pouliot
niaouli
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Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 | black nightshade |
Parrot
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| 5 | turnsole / litmus |
Emmanouil Tyrakis
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| 5 | dyer's cotton=chrozophora tinctoria |
Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X)
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| 3 | maurelle bush |
Emérentienne
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Proposed translations
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black nightshade
This is "Brèdes morelle" (Solanum nigrum). The problem here is that "maurelle" (which Robert also gives as "morelle") is a genus. There is also a "morelle douce-amer" (Solanum dulcamara).
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Note added at 17 mins (2003-11-14 20:39:10 GMT)
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Solanum dulcamera is climbing nightshade.
http://www.yardscaping.com/poisonpt.html
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Note added at 17 mins (2003-11-14 20:39:10 GMT)
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Solanum dulcamera is climbing nightshade.
http://www.yardscaping.com/poisonpt.html
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5 mins
maurelle bush
on va pas se fatiguer
10 mins
Emmanouil Tyrakis
Native in: Greek 
Works in: French to Greek, English to Greek, Greek to English, and 3 more.
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76
1 hr
dyer's cotton=chrozophora tinctoria
Generally considered a weed, Chrozophora tinctoria has many common names including dyer's-croton (English) giradol (Spanish), maurelle (French) lackmuskraut (German), akbas (Turkish) and Faqqoos el-homaar (Arabic). In Turkey it has long been used as a source of dye for Turkish carpets and in Palestine is used, much like henna, to dye the fingernails. It grows on dry fallow land, amongst crops such as wheat or onions, and in vineyards. Found in most Mediterranean and Middle Eastern countries11, it is a naturalised weed in Australia, particularly WA and SA and has been reported in the North American states of Alabama and Maryland12.
Identifying Chrozophora tinctoria
The plant is a low growing annual herb that flowers about November to March in the southern hemisphere or June to September in the northern hemisphere. The leaves are a uniform green, about the colour of a potato plant, with a grey-green woolly underside. They vary in shape and size, the smaller ones looking similar to basil, the larger ones being more like a heater shield13. On the back of the large leaves you may see a "crows foot" where the paler stem meets the leaf, then spreads into three prominent claw-like leaf veins. The flower spikes look rather like stumpy grey-green heads of wheat. The male buds are at the tip of the flower spike, while the female flowers show as a few bright yellow petals towards the base of the spike. The seed capsules or fruit are grey-green and knobbly like a miniature horse chestnut or a tiny mace head, except that they have three distinctive lobes. The juice squeezed from the ripe fruit will start out green or bluish green but will soon change to a deep inky blue and shift though purple to red as it dries14.
Back with the site reference..
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Note added at 2003-11-14 22:13:04 (GMT)
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from a New Zealand know-it-herbs and plants:
www.sca.org.nz/collegium/misc/turnsole.php - 22k - Cached - Similar pages
Identifying Chrozophora tinctoria
The plant is a low growing annual herb that flowers about November to March in the southern hemisphere or June to September in the northern hemisphere. The leaves are a uniform green, about the colour of a potato plant, with a grey-green woolly underside. They vary in shape and size, the smaller ones looking similar to basil, the larger ones being more like a heater shield13. On the back of the large leaves you may see a "crows foot" where the paler stem meets the leaf, then spreads into three prominent claw-like leaf veins. The flower spikes look rather like stumpy grey-green heads of wheat. The male buds are at the tip of the flower spike, while the female flowers show as a few bright yellow petals towards the base of the spike. The seed capsules or fruit are grey-green and knobbly like a miniature horse chestnut or a tiny mace head, except that they have three distinctive lobes. The juice squeezed from the ripe fruit will start out green or bluish green but will soon change to a deep inky blue and shift though purple to red as it dries14.
Back with the site reference..
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Note added at 2003-11-14 22:13:04 (GMT)
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from a New Zealand know-it-herbs and plants:
www.sca.org.nz/collegium/misc/turnsole.php - 22k - Cached - Similar pages
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