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NICOTIANA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

American and Asiatic aromatic herbs and shrubs with viscid foliage

Synonyms:

genus Nicotiana; Nicotiana

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Nicotiana" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "Nicotiana"):

tobacco; tobacco plant (aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubs)

Holonyms ("Nicotiana" 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)

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