tobacco
IPA: tʌbˈækoʊ
noun
- (uncountable) Any plant of the genus Nicotiana.
- (uncountable) Leaves of Nicotiana tabacum and some other species cultivated and harvested to make cigarettes, cigars, snuff, for smoking in pipes or for chewing.
- (countable) A variety of tobacco.
verb
- (intransitive) To indulge in tobacco; to smoke.
- (transitive) To treat with tobacco.
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Examples of "tobacco" in Sentences
- He has smoked tobacco for ten years.
- Tobacco is the main crop of the town.
- Tobacco comes from the word for the pipe.
- Quiney was a vintner and dealt in tobacco.
- Nicotine is the addictive drug in tobacco products.
- In Spanish, refers to adulterated tobacco generally.
- Alcohol and tobacco were proscribed in the early years.
- As the popularity of tobacco grew it became the savior of the colonies.
- As the popularity of tobacco grew, it became the savior of the colonies.
- He described tobacco as a panacea and sent tobacco plants to the French court.