English > Solanaceae: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | 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 | family 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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| Adjectives | solanaceous | of or relating to plants of the family Solanaceae (the potato family) |
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