| Noun | 1. | genus Schizanthus - Chilean herbs with orchid-like flowers asterid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs family Solanaceae, potato family, Solanaceae - 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 butterfly flower, poor man's orchid, schizanthus - any plant of the genus Schizanthus having finely divided leaves and showy variegated flowers |