TOBACCO (tobaccoes)

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Irregular inflected form: tobaccoes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does tobacco mean? 

• TOBACCO (noun)
  The noun TOBACCO has 2 senses:

1. leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion

2. aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubs

  Familiarity information: TOBACCO used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOBACCO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

baccy; tobacco

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

drug of abuse; street drug (a drug that is taken for nonmedicinal reasons (usually for mind-altering effects); drug abuse can lead to physical and mental damage and (with some substances) dependence and addiction)

plant product (a product made from plant material)

Meronyms (substance of "tobacco"):

common tobacco; Nicotiana tabacum (tall erect South American herb with large ovate leaves and terminal clusters of tubular white or pink flowers; cultivated for its leaves)

nicotine (an alkaloid poison that occurs in tobacco; used in medicine and as an insecticide)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tobacco"):

filler (the tobacco used to form the core of a cigar)

roll of tobacco; smoke (tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder)

smoking mixture (a blend of tobaccos to be smoked in a pipe)

snuff (finely powdered tobacco for sniffing up the nose)

shag (a strong coarse tobacco that has been shredded)

Turkish tobacco (a dark aromatic tobacco of eastern Europe that is used in cigarettes)

Derivation:

tobacconist (a shop that sells pipes and pipe tobacco and cigars and cigarettes)

tobacconist (a retail dealer in tobacco and tobacco-related articles)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

tobacco; tobacco plant

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

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tobacco"):

flowering tobacco; Jasmine tobacco; Nicotiana alata (South American ornamental perennial having nocturnally fragrant greenish-white flowers)

common tobacco; Nicotiana tabacum (tall erect South American herb with large ovate leaves and terminal clusters of tubular white or pink flowers; cultivated for its leaves)

Indian tobacco; Nicotiana rustica; wild tobacco (tobacco plant of South America and Mexico)

mustard tree; Nicotiana glauca; tree tobacco (evergreen South American shrub naturalized in United States; occasionally responsible for poisoning livestock)

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

genus Nicotiana; Nicotiana (American and Asiatic aromatic herbs and shrubs with viscid foliage)

 Context examples 

Therapy to help control nicotine withdrawal symptoms during tobacco cessation

(Nicotine Replacement, NCI Thesaurus)

That's the fault of the tobacco. I can afford only the cheapest.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Exposure to tobacco smoke products among individuals who do not smoke.

(Passive Smoke Exposure, NCI Thesaurus)

Tobacco and my work—that is all that is left to me.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

CEA may be found in the blood of people who have colon cancer, other types of cancer or diseases, or who smoke tobacco.

(CAP-1, NCI Dictionary)

It is also found in tobacco and tobacco smoke.

(Cadmium, NCI Dictionary)

It predominantly affects adults in their fifth and sixth decades of life and is associated with alcohol and tobacco use.

(Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

They do not contain any of the other chemicals found in tobacco products.

(Nicotine Replacement, NCI Dictionary)

Nitrosonornicotine is found in tobacco products and is likely produced by the nitrosation of nicotine during the making and smoking of tobacco products.

(Nitrosonornicotine, NCI Thesaurus)

The results of this study support health warnings that there is no safe level of exposure to tobacco smoke.

(No safe level of smoking: Even low-intensity smokers are at increased risk of earlier death, National Institutes of Health)