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TOBACCO

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: tobaccoes   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion

Synonyms:

baccy; tobacco

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("tobacco" is a kind of...):

drug of abuse; street drug (a drug that is taken for nonmedicinal reasons (usually for mind-altering effects); drug abuse can lead to physical and mental damage and (with some substances) dependence and addiction)

plant product (a product made from plant material)

Meronyms (substance of "tobacco"):

common tobacco; Nicotiana tabacum (tall erect South American herb with large ovate leaves and terminal clusters of tubular white or pink flowers; cultivated for its leaves)

nicotine (an alkaloid poison that occurs in tobacco; used in medicine and as an insecticide)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tobacco"):

filler (the tobacco used to form the core of a cigar)

roll of tobacco; smoke (tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder)

smoking mixture (a blend of tobaccos to be smoked in a pipe)

snuff (finely powdered tobacco for sniffing up the nose)

shag (a strong coarse tobacco that has been shredded)

Turkish tobacco (a dark aromatic tobacco of eastern Europe that is used in cigarettes)

Derivation:

tobacconist (a shop that sells pipes and pipe tobacco and cigars and cigarettes)

tobacconist (a retail dealer in tobacco and tobacco-related articles)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubs

Synonyms:

tobacco; tobacco plant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("tobacco" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tobacco"):

flowering tobacco; Jasmine tobacco; Nicotiana alata (South American ornamental perennial having nocturnally fragrant greenish-white flowers)

common tobacco; Nicotiana tabacum (tall erect South American herb with large ovate leaves and terminal clusters of tubular white or pink flowers; cultivated for its leaves)

Indian tobacco; Nicotiana rustica; wild tobacco (tobacco plant of South America and Mexico)

mustard tree; Nicotiana glauca; tree tobacco (evergreen South American shrub naturalized in United States; occasionally responsible for poisoning livestock)

Holonyms ("tobacco" is a member of...):

genus Nicotiana; Nicotiana (American and Asiatic aromatic herbs and shrubs with viscid foliage)

Credits

 Context examples: 

These changes, known as mutations, can be caused by a number of factors, some environmental, such as exposure to tobacco smoke or to ultraviolet light.

(‘Fingerprint database’ could help scientists to identify new cancer culprits, University of Cambridge)

A tobacco control trial conducted over the 7-year period from 1991-1998.

(American Stop Smoking Intervention for Cancer Prevention, NCI Thesaurus)

So we can't really compare it to tobacco.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

A type of chemical found in tobacco products and tobacco smoke.

(Nitrosamine, NCI Dictionary)

A substance that may be found in the blood of people who have colon cancer, other types of cancer or diseases, or who smoke tobacco.

(Carcinoembryonic antigen, NCI Dictionary)

Ah, a scent of tobacco would have been worth a great deal to us in such an investigation.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Well,” said I, “I'll cut you some tobacco, but if I was you and thought myself so badly, I would go to my prayers like a Christian man.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

You don’t object to tobacco, I take it?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian cigar.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Tobacco be very good. It be food to the hungry man. It makes the strong man stronger, and the angry man to forget that he is angry.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)