tobacco
tobacco Lexical Profile
tobacco Game Scores & Validity
• noun
The cured and processed leaves of the tobacco plant, prepared primarily for smoking in cigarettes, cigars, or pipes, as well as for chewing or use as snuff.
"She noticed the sweet, lingering scent of pipe tobacco in her grandfather's old study."
The commercial industry and trade involved in the cultivation, manufacturing, and distribution of products made from tobacco leaves.
"New public health regulations have placed strict advertising constraints on big tobacco across the country."
Any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Nicotiana (within the nightshade family), native to the Americas, widely cultivated for their broad, sticky leaves which naturally contain nicotine.
"The agricultural region's economy has historically relied on the cultivation of cotton and tobacco."
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Word Origin & Etymology
From Spanish 'tabaco', which was borrowed from Taíno (an extinct Arawakan language of the Caribbean). The original Taíno word is believed to have denoted either the rolled leaves themselves or the Y-shaped pipe used for inhaling the smoke.
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