TOBACCO PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tobacco plant mean? 

• TOBACCO PLANT (noun)
  The noun TOBACCO PLANT has 1 sense:

1. aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubs

  Familiarity information: TOBACCO PLANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOBACCO PLANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

tobacco; tobacco plant

Hypernyms ("tobacco plant" 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 plant"):

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 plant" is a member of...):

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

 Context examples 

A plant alkaloid, found in the tobacco plant, and addictive central nervous system (CNS) stimulant that causes either ganglionic stimulation in low doses or ganglionic blockage in high doses.

(Nicotine, NCI Thesaurus)