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NICOTIANA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
American and Asiatic aromatic herbs and shrubs with viscid foliage
Synonyms:
genus Nicotiana; Nicotiana
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Nicotiana" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "Nicotiana"):
tobacco; tobacco plant (aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubs)
Holonyms ("Nicotiana" 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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