tobacco : Idioms & Phrases

• noun the law enforcement and tax collection agency of the Treasury Department that enforces federal laws concerning alcohol and tobacco products and firearms and explosives and arson
  ATF.
  

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• noun tall erect South American herb with large ovate leaves and terminal clusters of tubular white or pink flowers; cultivated for its leaves
  Nicotiana tabacum.
  

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• noun South American ornamental perennial having nocturnally fragrant greenish-white flowers
  Nicotiana alata; flowering tobacco.
  

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• noun tobacco plant of South America and Mexico
  Nicotiana rustica; Indian tobacco.
  
• noun North American wild lobelia having small blue flowers and inflated capsules formerly used as an antispasmodic
  bladderpod; Lobelia inflata.
  

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• (Bot.), a species of Lobelia. See Lobelia.

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• noun South American ornamental perennial having nocturnally fragrant greenish-white flowers
  Nicotiana alata; flowering tobacco.
  

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• noun North American perennial propagated by means of runners
  ladies' tobacco; Antennaria plantaginifolia.
  

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• noun North American perennial propagated by means of runners
  ladies' tobacco; Antennaria plantaginifolia.
  

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• (Bot.), a composite plant (Arnica montana) of Europe; called also leopard's bane.

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• noun tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder
  smoke.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the common American skate.

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• noun larva of a noctuid moth; highly destructive to especially corn and cotton and tomato crops
  corn earworm; cotton bollworm; tomato fruitworm; Heliothis zia; vetchworm.
  

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• . (Chem.) See Nicotianine.

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• noun large green white-striped hawkmoth larva that feeds on tobacco and related plants; similar to tomato hornworm
  tomato worm; Manduca sexta.
  

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• noun an industry that manufactures and sells products containing tobacco
  

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• noun saliva colored brown by tobacco (snuff or chewing tobacco)
  

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• a tobacconist. R.

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• noun fungus causing a downy mildew on growing tobacco
  Peronospora hyoscyami.
  

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• noun a plant disease causing discoloration of the leaves of tobacco plants
  

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• noun the widely studied plant virus that causes tobacco mosaic; it was the first virus discovered (1892)
  TMV.
  

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• noun small moth whose larvae feed on tobacco and other dried plant products
  cacao moth; Ephestia elutella.
  

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• noun a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco
  pipe.
  

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• . (a) A pipe used for smoking, made of baked clay, wood, or other material. (b) (Bot.) Same as Indian pipe, under Indian.

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• noun aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubs
  tobacco.
  

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• noun a pouch for carrying pipe tobacco
  

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• noun a shop that sells pipes and pipe tobacco and cigars and cigarettes
  tobacconist; tobacconist shop.
  

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• a small plug for pressing down the tobacco in a pipe as it is smoked.

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• noun injurious to growing tobacco and peanuts
  Frankliniella fusca.
  

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• noun a person who smokes tobacco
  smoker.
  

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• noun disease of tomatoes and potatoes and tobacco etc caused by the bacterium Pseudomonas solanacearum
  ring rot; ring disease.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the larva of a large hawk moth (Sphinx, ∨ Phlegethontius, Carolina). It is dark green, with seven oblique white stripes bordered above with dark brown on each side of the body. It feeds upon the leaves of tobacco and tomato plants, and is often very injurious to the tobacco crop. See Illust. of Hawk moth.

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• (Min.), a species of clay used in making tobacco pipes; called also cimolite.

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• . (Zoöl.) See Pipemouth.

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• noun evergreen South American shrub naturalized in United States; occasionally responsible for poisoning livestock
  mustard tree; Nicotiana glauca.
  

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• noun a dark aromatic tobacco of eastern Europe that is used in cigarettes
  

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• noun tobacco plant of South America and Mexico
  Nicotiana rustica; Indian tobacco.
  

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