BRUGMANSIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Brugmansia mean? 

• BRUGMANSIA (noun)
  The noun BRUGMANSIA has 1 sense:

1. includes some plants often placed in the genus Datura: angel's trumpets

  Familiarity information: BRUGMANSIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRUGMANSIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Includes some plants often placed in the genus Datura: angel's trumpets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Brugmansia; genus Brugmansia

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

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

Meronyms (members of "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 ("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)