NICOTIANA TABACUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nicotiana tabacum mean? 

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

1. tall erect South American herb with large ovate leaves and terminal clusters of tubular white or pink flowers; cultivated for its leaves

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NICOTIANA TABACUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tall erect South American herb with large ovate leaves and terminal clusters of tubular white or pink flowers; cultivated for its leaves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

common tobacco; Nicotiana tabacum

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

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

Holonyms ("Nicotiana tabacum" is a substance of...):

baccy; tobacco (leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion)

 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)