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Definition: Solanaceae |
SolanaceaeNoun1. 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. |
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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) |
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Synonyms: SolanaceaeSynonyms: family Solanaceae (n), potato family (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Solanaceae |
| English words defined with "Solanaceae": Asteridae ♦ genus Mandragora ♦ Mandragora ♦ order Polemoniales ♦ Polemoniales ♦ solanaceous, 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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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Solanaceae": family Solanaceae. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
solanaceae | 17 |
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| 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 solanaceas (night shade family, solanacene), solanáceas (night shade family, solanacene). (various references) solanáceas (night shade family, solanacene). (various references) solanacéer (night shade family, solanacene), potatisväxter (night shade family, solanacene). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Solanaceae. (various references) |
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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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6F 6C 61 6E 61 63 65 61 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... --- .-.. .- -. .- -.-. . .- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01101100 01100001 01101110 01100001 01100011 01100101 01100001 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o l a n a c e a e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006F 006C 0061 006E 0061 0063 0065 0061 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53817867806769716771 |
| 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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