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SCOPOLIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Scopolia mean?
• SCOPOLIA (noun)
The noun SCOPOLIA has 1 sense:
1. genus of European perennial herbs yielding medicinal alkaloids
Familiarity information: SCOPOLIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of European perennial herbs yielding medicinal alkaloids
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Scopolia; Scopolia
Hypernyms ("Scopolia" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "Scopolia"):
Scopolia carniolica (herb that is a source of scopolamine)
Holonyms ("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)
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