Noun: potato family
- 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 potato family";
- Solanaceae, family Solanaceae
Derived forms: potato families
Type of: asterid dicot family
Part of: order Polemoniales, Polemoniales
Encyclopedia: Potato family