tobacco

Tobacco plant

Meanings

Noun

  • Any plant of the genus Nicotiana.
  • Leaves of Nicotiana tabacum and some other species cultivated and harvested to make cigarettes, cigars, snuff, for smoking in pipes or for chewing.
  • A variety of tobacco.

Verb

  • To indulge in tobacco; to smoke.
  • To treat with tobacco.

Origin

  • or from a Caribbean language such as Galibi Carib or TaĆ­no or multiple of them, from a word meaning "roll of tobacco leaves" or "a pipe for smoking tobacco," such as tabago.

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