TOBACCO

Tobacco

Tobacco refers to the more than 70 plant species within the genus Nicotiana of the Solanaceae family, as well as to products manufactured from dried tobacco leaves, including cigars and cigarettes, snuff, pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco and flavored shisha. Further uses of tobacco are in plant bioengineering and as ornamentals, and chemical components of tobacco are used in some pesticides and medications.

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tobacco

Noun

  1. Any plant of the genus Nicotiana.
  2. Leaves of Nicotiana tabacum and some other species cultivated and harvested to make cigarettes, cigars, snuff, for smoking in pipes or for chewing.
  3. A variety of tobacco.


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