WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

potato family
    n 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, and Solandra [syn: Solanaceae, family
         Solanaceae, potato family]