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Definition of Indian tobacco
1. Noun. Tobacco plant of South America and Mexico.
2. Noun. North American wild lobelia having small blue flowers and inflated capsules formerly used as an antispasmodic.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Indian Tobacco
Literary usage of Indian tobacco
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"(For further information, see the articles on the different tribes.) Indian tobacco.
See LOBELIA. INDIA RUBBER. See CAOUTCHOUC. ..."
2. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1841)
"At present Indian tobacco is not so suitable to European taste as that of Cuba
... The inferiority of Indian tobacco is ascribed to the species cultivated, ..."
3. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1841)
"At present Indian tobacco is not so suitable to European taste as that of Cuba
... The inferiority of Indian tobacco is ascribed to the species cultivated, ..."
4. Control of Tobacco-related Cancers and Other Diseases: Proceedings of an by Prakash C. Gupta, James E. Hamner, P. R. Murti (1992)
"Carcinogenic potential of some Indian tobacco products SUMATI V. BHIDE Cancer
Research Institute, Tata Memorial Centre, Bombay, India Although there is ..."
5. Twenty Years Among Our Hostile Indians: Describing the Characteristics by James Lee Humfreville (1903)
"... or Indian tobacco—Method of Preparing It for Smoking—Its Strong and Lasting
Odor —How Animals Detected the Approach of Indians in the Night—Olfactory ..."
6. The principles and practice of medical jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor, Thomas Stevenson (1883)
"Indian tobacco (LOBELIA INFLATA). The leaves of Indian tobacco contain an acrid
principle which is capable of producing poisonous effects on the brain and ..."
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