Chem. [f. SOLAN-UM + -IA.] An alkaloid found in the woody nightshade.
1830. Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., 233. The active principle of Solanum Dulcamara is an alkali, called Solania.
1884. Encycl. Brit., XVII. 499/2. It [S. Dulcamara] owes its medicinal activity to a bitter principle yielding … the alkaloid ‘solania.’
