Noun: tobacco (tobaccos) tu'ba-kow
- Aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubs
"The tobacco plant's large leaves were harvested for processing";
- tobacco plant
- 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