GENUS SCOPOLIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Scopolia mean? 

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

1. genus of European perennial herbs yielding medicinal alkaloids

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS SCOPOLIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of European perennial herbs yielding medicinal alkaloids

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Scopolia; Scopolia

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Scopolia"):

Scopolia carniolica (herb that is a source of scopolamine)

Holonyms ("genus Scopolia" 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)