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Noun: tobacco (tobaccos)  tu'ba-kow
  1. Aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubs
    "The tobacco plant's large leaves were harvested for processing";
    - tobacco plant
     
  2. Leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion
    "The old sailor always had a pouch of tobacco in his pocket";
    - baccy [Brit, informal], snout [UK, informal]

Derived forms: tobaccos

Type of: drug of abuse, herb, herbaceous plant, plant product, street drug

Part of: genus Nicotiana, Nicotiana, tobacco product

Encyclopedia: Tobacco, Virginia