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noun
the plant family Solanaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, trees, shrubs, and vines having alternate, simple or pinnate leaves, conspicuous flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including belladonna, eggplant, nightshade, peppers of the genus Capsicum, petunia, potato, tobacco, and tomato.
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How to use nightshade family in a sentence
In 2014, Bock’s team used this method to create a new species in the nightshade family with a combination of nuclear and organelle genomes that could not have arisen from hybridization.
Plant Cells of Different Species Can Swap Organelles|Viviane Callier|January 20, 2021|Quanta MagazineSome berries of several plants belonging to the nightshade family have this peculiarity, as well as some of the cucurbits.
Seed Dispersal|William J. Beal