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
   "Tomatoes and potatoes are members of the family Solanaceae";
   - Solanaceae, potato family

Type of: asterid dicot family

Part of: order Polemoniales, Polemoniales