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Tobacco plant   /təbˈækˌoʊ plænt/   Listen
Tobacco plant

noun
1.
Aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubs.  Synonym: tobacco.





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"Tobacco plant" Quotes from Famous Books



... being a deadly poison to them. Smoking with tobacco, or sprinkling with tobacco-water, are familiar modes of getting rid of the unwelcome intruders in gardens. Doubtless this peculiar property of the tobacco plant has been developed as a prophylactic against insect enemies: and if so, we may perhaps owe the weed itself, as a smokable leaf, to the little aphides. Granting this hypothetical connection, the name of honey-dew would indeed be a peculiarly appropriate one. I may mention in passing ...
— Falling in Love - With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science • Grant Allen


Words linked to "Tobacco plant" :   Indian tobacco, Nicotiana alata, wild tobacco, herb, Nicotiana tabacum, tree tobacco, Nicotiana glauca, mustard tree, flowering tobacco, herbaceous plant, common tobacco, genus Nicotiana, Jasmine tobacco, Nicotiana, Nicotiana rustica


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