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tobacco

  • noun
  • /təˈbækəʊ/

Any plant of the genus Nicotiana.

Other meanings

  1. Leaves of Nicotiana tabacum and some other species cultivated and harvested to make cigarettes, cigars, snuff, for smoking in pipes or for chewing.

  2. A variety of tobacco.

    “Tobaccos from the Connecticut Valley were used for wrapping cigars.”

A kind of

  • plant product

Kinds of tobacco

  • filler
  • roll of tobacco
  • smoking mixture

Word history

From Spanish "tabaco".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “tobacco” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.