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GENUS BRUGMANSIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Includes some plants often placed in the genus Datura: angel's trumpets
Synonyms:
Brugmansia; genus Brugmansia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Brugmansia" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Brugmansia"):
angel's trumpet; Brugmansia arborea; Datura arborea; maikoa (a South American plant that is cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers)
angel's trumpet; Brugmansia suaveolens; Datura suaveolens (South American plant cultivated for its very large nocturnally fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers)
Holonyms ("genus Brugmansia" is a member of...):
family Solanaceae; potato family; Solanaceae (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)