family solanaceae
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1. large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | asterid dicot family, |
| definition | : | family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus solanum, solanum, |
| definition | : | type genus of the Solanaceae: nightshade; potato; eggplant; bittersweet (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus browallia, |
| definition | : | small genus of tropical South American annuals (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | brunfelsia, genus brunfelsia, |
| definition | : | genus of tropical American shrubs grown for their flowers followed by fleshy berrylike fruits (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | brugmansia, genus brugmansia, |
| definition | : | includes some plants often placed in the genus Datura: angel's trumpets (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | capsicum, genus capsicum, |
| definition | : | chiefly tropical perennial shrubby plants having many-seeded fruits: sweet and hot peppers (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | cestrum, genus cestrum, |
| definition | : | genus of fragrant tropical American shrubs (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | fabiana, genus fabiana, |
| definition | : | genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus lycium, lycium, |
| definition | : | deciduous and evergreen shrubs often spiny; cosmopolitan in temperate and subtropical regions (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus nicotiana, nicotiana, |
| definition | : | American and Asiatic aromatic herbs and shrubs with viscid foliage (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus nierembergia, |
| definition | : | genus of tropical American erect or creeping herbs with solitary flowers (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus petunia, petunia, |
| definition | : | annual or perennial herbs or shrubs of tropical South America (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus salpiglossis, |
| definition | : | small genus of herbs of the southern Andes having large showy flowers (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus schizanthus, |
| definition | : | Chilean herbs with orchid-like flowers (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus scopolia, scopolia, |
| definition | : | genus of European perennial herbs yielding medicinal alkaloids (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | order polemoniales, polemoniales, |
| definition | : | Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales (noun.plant) |
| derivation | : | solanaceous, |
| definition | : | of or relating to plants of the family Solanaceae (the potato family) (adj.pert) |
| derivation | : | solanaceous, |
| definition | : | of or relating to plants of the family Solanaceae (the potato family) (adj.pert) |
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