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TOBACCO PLANT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubs
Synonyms:
tobacco; tobacco plant
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("tobacco plant" 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 plant"):
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 plant" is a member of...):
genus Nicotiana; Nicotiana (American and Asiatic aromatic herbs and shrubs with viscid foliage)
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