English > family Solanaceae: 1 sense > noun 1, plantMeaning | 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. |
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Synonyms | Solanaceae, potato family |
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Member of | Polemoniales, order Polemoniales | Polemoniaceae |
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Members | Atropa, genus Atropa | belladonna |
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Brugmansia, genus Brugmansia | Includes some plants often placed in the genus Datura |
Brunfelsia, genus Brunfelsia | genus of tropical American shrubs grown for their flowers followed by fleshy berrylike fruits |
Cestrum, genus Cestrum | genus of fragrant tropical American shrubs |
Cyphomandra, genus Cyphomandra | tree tomato |
Datura, genus Datura | thorn apple |
Fabiana, genus Fabiana | genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs |
Hyoscyamus, genus Hyoscyamus | genus of poisonous herbs |
Lycium, genus Lycium | deciduous and evergreen shrubs often spiny |
Lycopersicon, genus Lycopersicon, Lycopersicum, genus Lycopersicum | tomatoes |
Mandragora, genus Mandragora | A genus of stemless herbs of the family Solanaceae |
Nicandra, genus Nicandra | sturdy annual of Peru |
Nicotiana, genus Nicotiana | American and Asiatic aromatic herbs and shrubs with viscid foliage |
Physalis, genus Physalis | ground cherries |
Salpichroa, genus Salpichroa | herbs of temperate North and South America |
Scopolia, genus Scopolia | genus of European perennial herbs yielding medicinal alkaloids |
Solandra, genus Solandra | shrubby climbers of tropical America |
Solanum, genus Solanum | type genus of the Solanaceae |
Streptosolen, genus Streptosolen | One species |
genus Browallia | small genus of tropical South American annuals |
genus Capsicum, Capsicum | chiefly tropical perennial shrubby plants having many-seeded fruits |
genus Nierembergia | genus of tropical American erect or creeping herbs with solitary flowers |
genus Petunia, Petunia | Annual or perennial herbs or shrubs of tropical South America |
genus Salpiglossis | small genus of herbs of the southern Andes having large showy flowers |
genus Schizanthus | Chilean herbs with orchid-like flowers |
Broader | asterid dicot family | family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs |
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Spanish | solanáceas |
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Catalan | Solanaceae, solanàcia, solanàcies |
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