GENUS NICOTIANA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Nicotiana mean? 

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

1. American and Asiatic aromatic herbs and shrubs with viscid foliage

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS NICOTIANA (noun)

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Meaning:

American and Asiatic aromatic herbs and shrubs with viscid foliage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Nicotiana; Nicotiana

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Nicotiana"):

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

Holonyms ("genus 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)