adjective
definition
Pertaining to the family Solanaceae, which includes the nightshades.
Examples of solanaceous in a Sentence
The cereal crops (wheat, barley, oats, rye, maize); the cruciferous crops (turnips, cabbage, kale, rape, mustard); the solanaceous crops (potatoes); the chenopodiaceous crops (mangels, sugar-beets), and other non-leguminous crops have, so far as is known, no such power, and are therefore more or less benefited by the direct application of nitrogenous manures.
Most PEPc kinase genes contain a single conserved intron but solanaceous plants have one unusual PEPc kinase gene with a second intron.
Not to be used on eggplants, peppers, tomatoes, or other member of the solanaceous family.