potato family

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potato family - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  potato family
      n 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 [syn: Solanaceae, family Solanaceae
           , potato family]