a book for children by the US writer Laura Ingalls WILDER, which describes her life as a child in the Midwest in the 19th century, when her family were among the first white people to live there. It is also the name of a popular US television programme of the 1970s, which was based on WILDER's books.
weedy nightshade with silvery foliage and violet, blue or white flowers; roundish berry widely used to curdle milk; central United States to South America