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Solanaceae

noun

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. Synonyms: family Solanaceae, potato family.

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"Solanaceae" Quotes from Famous Books

... staechas, or wild everlasting; Filago germanica, or common cotton-rose. Next come the Labiatae: Marrubium vulgare, or common white horehound; Ballota fetida, or stinking horehound; Calamintha nepeta, or lesser calamint; Salvia aethiopis, or woolly sage. Lastly, the Solanaceae: Verbascum thapsus, or shepherd's club; V. sinuatum, ...

— Bramble-bees and Others • J. Henri Fabre

Words linked to "Solanaceae" : Cestrum, genus Browallia, genus Capsicum, genus Petunia, genus Lycopersicon, genus Cestrum, Cyphomandra, Datura, Lycopersicum, genus Lycium, Fabiana, capsicum, genus Solanum, genus Datura, genus Nicandra, genus Brugmansia, petunia, genus Fabiana, Lycium, Solandra, Lycopersicon, genus Brunfelsia, Polemoniales, Solanum, genus Physalis, Brugmansia, Mandragora, Nicandra, genus Salpichroa, genus Cyphomandra, Salpichroa, Streptosolen, genus Lycopersicum, genus Solandra, genus Schizanthus, Physalis, Nicotiana, genus Hyoscyamus, asterid dicot family, Brunfelsia, order Polemoniales, Scopolia, solanaceous, genus Scopolia, genus Nicotiana, genus Salpiglossis, Hyoscyamus, genus Streptosolen, Atropa, genus Nierembergia, genus Atropa, genus Mandragora