SOLANACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Solanaceae mean? 

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

1. 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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOLANACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Solanaceae; potato family; Solanaceae

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Solanaceae"):

genus Lycium; Lycium (deciduous and evergreen shrubs often spiny; cosmopolitan in temperate and subtropical regions)

genus Streptosolen; Streptosolen (one species: marmalade bush)

genus Solandra; Solandra (shrubby climbers of tropical America)

genus Scopolia; Scopolia (genus of European perennial herbs yielding medicinal alkaloids)

genus Schizanthus (Chilean herbs with orchid-like flowers)

genus Salpiglossis (small genus of herbs of the southern Andes having large showy flowers)

genus Salpichroa; Salpichroa (herbs of temperate North and South America: cock's eggs)

genus Physalis; Physalis (ground cherries)

genus Petunia; Petunia (annual or perennial herbs or shrubs of tropical South America)

genus Nierembergia (genus of tropical American erect or creeping herbs with solitary flowers)

genus Nicotiana; Nicotiana (American and Asiatic aromatic herbs and shrubs with viscid foliage)

genus Nicandra; Nicandra (sturdy annual of Peru)

genus Mandragora; Mandragora (a genus of stemless herbs of the family Solanaceae)

genus Lycopersicon; genus Lycopersicum; Lycopersicon; Lycopersicum (tomatoes)

genus Hyoscyamus; Hyoscyamus (genus of poisonous herbs: henbane)

Fabiana; genus Fabiana (genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs)

Datura; genus Datura (thorn apple)

Cyphomandra; genus Cyphomandra (tree tomato)

Cestrum; genus Cestrum (genus of fragrant tropical American shrubs)

Capsicum; genus Capsicum (chiefly tropical perennial shrubby plants having many-seeded fruits: sweet and hot peppers)

Brugmansia; genus Brugmansia (includes some plants often placed in the genus Datura: angel's trumpets)

Brunfelsia; genus Brunfelsia (genus of tropical American shrubs grown for their flowers followed by fleshy berrylike fruits)

genus Browallia (small genus of tropical South American annuals)

Atropa; genus Atropa (belladonna)

genus Solanum; Solanum (type genus of the Solanaceae: nightshade; potato; eggplant; bittersweet)

Holonyms ("Solanaceae" is a member of...):

order Polemoniales; Polemoniales (Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales)

Derivation:

solanaceous (of or relating to plants of the family Solanaceae (the potato family))

 Context examples 

Cultivated in India and North America, ashwagandha (Withania somnifera Dunal or Indian ginseng) belongs to the Solanaceae (nightshade) family.

(Ashwagandha Root Powder Extract, NCI Thesaurus)