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    POTATO FAMILY

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     I. (noun) 

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    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 Solandraplay

    Synonyms:

    family Solanaceae; potato family; Solanaceae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("potato family" is a kind of...):

    asterid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

    Meronyms (members of "potato family"):

    genus Streptosolen; Streptosolen (one species: marmalade bush)

    genus Solandra; Solandra (shrubby climbers of tropical America)

    genus Scopolia; Scopolia (genus of European perennial herbs yielding medicinal alkaloids)

    genus Schizanthus (Chilean herbs with orchid-like flowers)

    genus Salpiglossis (small genus of herbs of the southern Andes having large showy flowers)

    genus Salpichroa; Salpichroa (herbs of temperate North and South America: cock's eggs)

    genus Physalis; Physalis (ground cherries)

    genus Petunia; Petunia (annual or perennial herbs or shrubs of tropical South America)

    genus Nierembergia (genus of tropical American erect or creeping herbs with solitary flowers)

    genus Nicotiana; Nicotiana (American and Asiatic aromatic herbs and shrubs with viscid foliage)

    genus Nicandra; Nicandra (sturdy annual of Peru)

    genus Mandragora; Mandragora (a genus of stemless herbs of the family Solanaceae)

    genus Lycopersicon; genus Lycopersicum; Lycopersicon; Lycopersicum (tomatoes)

    genus Lycium; Lycium (deciduous and evergreen shrubs often spiny; cosmopolitan in temperate and subtropical regions)

    genus Hyoscyamus; Hyoscyamus (genus of poisonous herbs: henbane)

    Fabiana; genus Fabiana (genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs)

    Datura; genus Datura (thorn apple)

    Cyphomandra; genus Cyphomandra (tree tomato)

    Cestrum; genus Cestrum (genus of fragrant tropical American shrubs)

    Capsicum; genus Capsicum (chiefly tropical perennial shrubby plants having many-seeded fruits: sweet and hot peppers)

    Brugmansia; genus Brugmansia (includes some plants often placed in the genus Datura: angel's trumpets)

    Brunfelsia; genus Brunfelsia (genus of tropical American shrubs grown for their flowers followed by fleshy berrylike fruits)

    genus Browallia (small genus of tropical South American annuals)

    Atropa; genus Atropa (belladonna)

    genus Solanum; Solanum (type genus of the Solanaceae: nightshade; potato; eggplant; bittersweet)

    Holonyms ("potato family" is a member of...):

    order Polemoniales; Polemoniales (Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales)

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