Tobacco

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The tropical American plant Nicotiana tabacum of the nightshade family, widely cultivated for its leaves, which are used primarily for smoking.
  • noun. The leaves of this plant, dried and processed chiefly for use in cigarettes, cigars, or snuff or for smoking in pipes.
  • noun. Any of various other plants of the genus Nicotiana.
  • noun. Products made from these plants.
  • noun. The habit of smoking tobacco.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The mouse-ear everlasting, Antennaria plantaginifolia.
  • noun. a variety with a broad, short leaf grown in two counties in Indiana, used for making common cigars.
  • noun. In Queensland, the name is also applied to the pituri, Duboisia Hopwoodii. See pituri.
  • noun. In Tasmania, a shrub of the aster family, Cassinia spectabilis.
  • noun. A commercial subdivision of the white Burley (see below) consisting of the darker, heavier leaves.
  • noun. Sometimes a brand of tobacco (see return, n., 5). One such is known as bird's-eye returns.
  • noun. A plant of the genus Nicotiana, particularly one of several species affording the narcotic product of the same name.
  • noun. The leaves of the tobacco-plant prepared in various forms, to be smoked, chewed, or used as snuff (see Snuff).
  • noun. Same as Indian tobacco. See above.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of the Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an acrid taste.
  • noun. The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing, etc., by being dried, cured, and manufactured in various ways.
  • noun. the common American skate.
  • noun. See Nicotianine.
  • noun. a tobacconist.
  • noun. Same as Indian pipe, under Indian.
  • noun. a species of clay used in making tobacco pipes; -- called also cimolite.
  • noun. See Pipemouth.
  • noun. a small plug for pressing down the tobacco in a pipe as it is smoked.
  • noun. the larva of a large hawk moth (Sphinx Carolina syn. Phlegethontius Carolina). It is dark green, with seven oblique white stripes bordered above with dark brown on each side of the body. It feeds upon the leaves of tobacco and tomato plants, and is often very injurious to the tobacco crop. See Illust. of Hawk moth.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Any plant of the genus Nicotiana.
  • noun. Leaves of certain varieties of the plant cultivated and harvested to make cigarettes, cigars, snuff, for smoking in pipes or for chewing.
  • noun. A variety of tobacco.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubs
  • noun. leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion
  • Word Usage
    "Suppose Count Mercier wished to say that he was sorry that his tobacco had been captured by the foe, why should he couch it in such language as, 'Thá mee ongan hréowan thaet mín _tobacco_ on feónda geweald feran sceolde' -- which is the good _old_ Anglo-Saxon idiom. '"
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    Nicotiana  nicotian  weed  
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    tobaccoes