nicotiana
IPA: nˈɪkʌtiˈænʌ
noun
- (horticulture) Any ornamental plant of the genus Nicotiana
- literature dealing with tobacco-smoking
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Examples of "nicotiana" in Sentences
- This year lime green nicotiana sprouted along with bleeding hearts, calibrachoa sp?
- The nicotiana is one of the highlights of the gravel, never showing up in the beds even if I save seed and sow it there.
- The path wound through the garden flanked here and there by frothy pink azaleas and the fragrant white stars of nicotiana.
- Here Ms. Daniels and Ms. McConnell collect seeds from a nicotiana, a fragrant flowering tobacco plant that they say is easy to grow.
- Desert-men, that caused nicotiana to be proscribed by the Wahhabis, who revived against its origin a senseless and obsolete calumny.
- I am very excited about the nicotiana and read in a blog somewhere, sorry cannot remember which one, that they like extra feeding as babies.
- This is a tiny flower on a nicotiana ‘Tinkerbelle’ offspring with an even tinier little upside down caterpillar moving along the hairy staff.
- The two women to whose unvarying kindness all my comfort had been owing, were made happy with satin-stripe, cassis, and the inevitable nicotiana.
- The porch was flickering with lights, filled with the sweetness of moss roses in a bowl and the evening fragrance of nicotiana blooming just outside the screens.
- Stone Quarry and those who lived above the line where nicotiana grew, used the kinni-kinik or bark of the red willow and some seven other succedanea. 194 But tobacco proper, which soon superseded all materials except hemp and opium, was first adopted by the Spaniards of Santo Domingo in A.D. 1496 and reached England in 1565.
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