POTATO FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does potato family mean? 

• POTATO FAMILY (noun)
  The noun POTATO FAMILY has 1 sense:

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

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 Dictionary entry details 

• POTATO FAMILY (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 Solandra

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Solanaceae; potato family; Solanaceae

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

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 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)