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Solanaceae

Definition: Solanaceae

Solanaceae

Noun

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; Solandra.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Solanaceae

DomainDefinition

Biology & Biotechnology

A large and economically important family of widely distributed herbs, shrubs or trees of the order polemoniales. Source: European Union. (references)

Health

Family of flowering plants (order Solanales). Among the most important are potatoes, tomatoes, capsicum (green and red peppers), tobacco, and belladonna. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Solanaceae

Synonyms: family Solanaceae (n), potato family (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Solanaceae

English words defined with "Solanaceae": Asteridaegenus MandragoraMandragoraorder PolemonialesPolemonialessolanaceous, solanaceous vegetable, subclass Asteridae. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Solanaceae": Potyvirus. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Solanaceae" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (night shade family, Solanaceae, solanacene).

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Commercial Usage: Solanaceae

DomainTitle

Books

  • Revision of Solanum Section Cyphomandropsis (Solanaceae) (Systematic Botany Monographs, Vol 61) (reference)

  • Solanaceae - Lobeliaceae (Flora of Siberia Series Voluem 12) (reference)

  • Solanaceae Biology and Systematics (reference)

  • Solanaceae III: Taxonomy, Chemistry, Evolution (reference)

  • Solanum nigrum L. (Solanaceae) and related species in Australia (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Solanaceae

"Solanaceae" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Solanaceae" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Solanaceae

Expression using "Solanaceae": family Solanaceae. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Solanaceae

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

solanaceae

17
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Solanaceae

Language Translations for "Solanaceae"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

Solanaceae (night shade family, solanacene), natskyggefamilien (night shade family, solanacene), natskyggefamilie (night shade family, solanacene). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

solanaceeën (night shade family, solanacene), nachtschaden (night shade family, solanacene), nachtschadefamilie (night shade family, solanacene), nachtschade-achtigen (night shade family, solanacene), nachtschadeachtigen (night shade family, solanacene). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

koisokasvit (night shade family, solanacene). (various references)

   

French

  

Solanacées (solanacene), solanées (solanacene). (various references)

   

German

  

Solanazeen (night shade family, solanacene), Solanaceen (night shade family, solanacene), Nachtschattengewächse (night shade family, solanacene). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

στρυχνώδη (night shade family, solanacene), σολανώδη (night shade family, solanacene). (various references)

   

Italian

  

Solanacee (night shade family, solanacene). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

olanaceaesay

   

Portuguese

  

solanaceas (night shade family, solanacene), solanáceas (night shade family, solanacene). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

solanáceas (night shade family, solanacene). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

solanacéer (night shade family, solanacene), potatisväxter (night shade family, solanacene). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Solanaceae

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Solanaceae. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Solanaceae

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-e-e-l-n-o-s"

-3 letters: anlaces, canolas, cleanse, enclose, enlaces, enolase, scalene.

-4 letters: aneles, anlace, anoles, calesa, canals, canoes, canola, cleans, clones, coalas, encase, enlace, lances, lanose, leones, oceans, seance, seneca, solace.

-5 letters: acnes, aeons, alane, alans, alecs, aloes, alone, anele, anlas, anoas, anole, ansae, asana, calos, canal, canes, canoe, canso, cease, cense, clans, clean, clone, clons, close.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Solanaceae


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

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British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Translations: Ancient
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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