TOBACCO
\təbˈakə͡ʊ], \təbˈakəʊ], \t_ə_b_ˈa_k_əʊ]\
Definitions of TOBACCO
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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An American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of the Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an acrid taste.
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The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing, etc., by being dried, cured, and manufactured in various ways.
By Oddity Software
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The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing, etc., by being dried, cured, and manufactured in various ways.
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An American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of the Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and cathartic. has a strong, peculiar smell, and an acrid taste.
By Noah Webster.
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The toxic solanaceous American plant Nicotiana tabacum. It yields NICOTINE and other biologically active chemicals; its dried leaves are used for smoking.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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An American plant of the nightshade family, the dried leaves of which are prepared and used for smoking and chewing, or as snuff.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The dried leaves of Nicotiana tabacum and other species of N., used as a sedative by smoking, chewing, or inhalation of the powdered leaves. It contains various narcotic and other principles-nicotine, pyridine, collidine, and picoline. Tobacco was formerly employed in medicine to relax spasm in strangulated hernia, asthma, hiccup, etc., and applied externally in scabies and other skin affections.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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A narcotic plant, a native of America, whose dried leaves are used for smoking, chewing, and in snuff.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A narcotic plant, a native of America, the leaves of which are used for smoking and chewing and in snuff.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A highly-narcotie and poisonous plant, indigenous to America, but extensively grown elswhere; the dried and prepared leaves of the plant, much used in smoking and chewing, and in the manufacture of snuff.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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