About The Word Tobacco
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Tobacco
Tobacco Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Tobacco?
[n] leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion
[n] aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubs Synonyms | Synonyms for Tobacco: baccy Related Terms | Find terms related to Tobacco: See Also | common tobacco | common tobacco | drug of abuse | filler | flowering tobacco | genus Nicotiana | herb | herbaceous plant | Indian tobacco | Jasmine tobacco | mustard tree | Nicotiana | Nicotiana alata | Nicotiana glauca | Nicotiana rustica | Nicotiana tabacum | Nicotiana tabacum | nicotine | plant product | roll of tobacco | shag | smoke | smoking mixture | snuff | street drug | tree tobacco | Turkish tobacco | wild tobacco Tobacco In Webster's Dictionary \To*bac"co\, n. [Sp. tabaco, fr. the Indian tabaco the
tube or pipe in which the Indians or Caribbees smoked this
plant. Some derive the word from Tabaco, a province of
Yucatan, where it was said to be first found by the
Spaniards; others from the island of Tobago, one of the
Caribbees. But these derivations are very doubtful.]
1. (Bot.) 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.
Note: The name is extended to other species of the genus, and
to some unrelated plants, as Indian tobacco ({Nicotiana
rustica}, and also {Lobelia inflata}), mountain tobacco
({Arnica montana}), and Shiraz tobacco ({Nicotiana
Persica}).
2. The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing,
etc., by being dried, cured, and manufactured in various
ways.
{Tobacco box} (Zo["o]l.), the common American skate.
{Tobacco camphor}. (Chem.) See {Nicotianine}.
{Tobacco man}, a tobacconist. [R.]
{Tobacco pipe}.
(a) A pipe used for smoking, made of baked clay, wood, or
other material.
(b) (Bot.) Same as {Indian pipe}, under {Indian}.
{Tobacco-pipe clay} (Min.), a species of clay used in making
tobacco pipes; -- called also {cimolite}.
{Tobacco-pipe fish}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Pipemouth}.
{Tobacco stopper}, a small plug for pressing down the tobacco
in a pipe as it is smoked.
{Tobacco worm} (Zo["o]l.), the larva of a large hawk moth
({Sphinx, or 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}.
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