tobacco
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tobacco/təˈbakəʊ/
▶noun (pl. tobaccos)
- 1 a preparation of the dried and fermented nicotine-rich leaves of an American plant, used for smoking or chewing.
- 2 the plant of the nightshade family which yields tobacco, native to tropical America. [Nicotiana tabacum.]
■ an ornamental plant related to tobacco.
– origin C16: from Sp. tabaco; perh. from a Carib word denoting a tobacco pipe or from a Taino word for a primitive cigar, or from Arab.
'tobacco' also found in these Oxford entries:
ashtray
- ATF
- baccy
- blanket
- briar
- calabash
- cheroot
- chibouk
- cigar
- cigarette
- clay pipe
- cure
- dottle
- funk
- funk
- Havana
- hookah
- hornworm
- humidor
- kinnikinnick
- making
- meerschaum
- mosaic
- nicotiana
- nicotine
- non-smoker
- peace pipe
- petunia
- pigtail
- pipe
- pipeclay
- pipe cleaner
- pipestone
- plantation
- plug
- quid
- rappee
- screw
- shag
- shisha
- smoke
- smoker
- snout
- snuff
- stem
- tar
- tendu leaf
- tobacco mosaic virus
- tobacconist
