GENUS DATURA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Datura mean? 

• GENUS DATURA (noun)
  The noun GENUS DATURA has 1 sense:

1. thorn apple

  Familiarity information: GENUS DATURA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS DATURA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Thorn apple

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Datura; genus Datura

Hypernyms ("genus Datura" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Datura"):

thorn apple (any of several plants of the genus Datura)

Holonyms ("genus Datura" 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)