NICOTIANA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nicotiana mean? 

• NICOTIANA (noun)
  The noun NICOTIANA has 1 sense:

1. American and Asiatic aromatic herbs and shrubs with viscid foliage

  Familiarity information: NICOTIANA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NICOTIANA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

American and Asiatic aromatic herbs and shrubs with viscid foliage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Nicotiana; Nicotiana

Hypernyms ("Nicotiana" is a kind of...):

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "Nicotiana"):

tobacco; tobacco plant (aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubs)

Holonyms ("Nicotiana" is a member of...):

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)

 Context examples 

Cocculus/nux vomica/tabacum/petroleum extract contains equal homeopathic units of the following extracts: extract of Cocculus indicus (fish berry), the fruit of the southeast Asian/Indian climbing plant Anamirta cocculus; extract of the seeds of Strychnos nux vomica (poison nut), an evergreen tree native to southeast Asia; extract of Nicotiana tabacum (tobacco); and petroleum.

(Cocculus/Nux vomica/Tabacum/Petroleum Extract, NCI Thesaurus)

Researchers from the Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge compared how two distantly related plants – a common liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha) and a flowering plant, wild tobacco (Nicotiana benthamiana) – defend themselves against an aggressive pathogen (Phytophthora palmivora).

(Ancient defence strategy continues to protect plants from pathogens, University of Cambridge)