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POTATO FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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
Synonyms:
family Solanaceae; potato family; Solanaceae
Classified under:
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)
