genus Nicotiana

Thesaurus

Noun

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genus Nicotiana - American and Asiatic aromatic herbs and shrubs with viscid foliageNicotianaasterid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubsfamily 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 Solandratobacco plant, tobacco - aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubs