solanaceous

American  

[sol-uh-ney-shuhs] / ˌsɒl əˈneɪ ʃəs /

adjective

1. belonging to the Solanaceae, the nightshade family of plants.

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solanaceous British  

/ ˌsɒləˈneɪʃəs /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or belonging to the Solanaceae, a family of plants having typically tubular flowers with reflexed petals, protruding anthers, and often poisonous or narcotic properties: includes the potato, tobacco, henbane, mandrake, and several nightshades

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Etymology

Origin of solanaceous

1795–1805; < New Latin Solanace ( ae ) name of the family ( Solan ( um ) a genus ( Latin solānum nightshade) + -aceae -aceae ) + -ous

Example Sentences

The caterpillar of the Death's-head Hawk-moth requires the solanaceous narcotics, principally the potato, and will have nothing else.

From More Hunting Wasps by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

There also grew the nightshade, with other solanaceous weeds, bearing little clusters of green and purple berries, wild oats, fox-tail grass, and nettles.

From The Purple Land by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)

What correspondence is there between the character of the shivering and snowy liliaceous plants of winter and the purple solanaceous plants of autumn?

From Romance of the Rabbit by Edgerton, Gladys

It does not belong to the solanaceous, but to the papilionaceous or pea family, and its flowers have a delightful fragrance.

From The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by Waller, Horace

The solanaceous flowers are purple, and it bears fruit the size of cherries, black as jet, in clusters of three to five or six.

From Far Away and Long Ago by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)