Definition of Nicotiana alata

1. Noun. South American ornamental perennial having nocturnally fragrant greenish-white flowers.

Exact synonyms: Flowering Tobacco, Jasmine Tobacco
Generic synonyms: Tobacco, Tobacco Plant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nicotiana Alata

Nicoll
Nicolle
Nicolle's stain
Nicolle's white mycetoma
Nicolls
Nicolo Amati
Nicolson
Nicomachean
Nicomedia
Nicopolitan
Nicopolitans
Nicosia
Nicosian
Nicosians
Nicotiana
Nicotiana alata (current term)
Nicotiana glauca
Nicotiana rustica
Nicotiana tabacum
Nicæa
Nidaros
Nide
Nidhogg
Nidri
Nidularia
Nidulariaceae
Nidulariales
Nidwalden
Niebuhr
Nieden's syndrome

Literary usage of Nicotiana alata

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"They should not be confused. The Nicotiana self-fertility is completely dominant over self-sterility. Either of the self-sterile species Nicotiana alata or ..."

2. Our Garden Flowers: A Popular Study of Their Native Lands, Their Life by Harriet Louise Keeler (1910)
"Nicotiana alata is a deservedly popular plant of easy culture and beautiful bloom ... Nicotiana alata the pure-white and something of the poise of Narcissus ..."

3. The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity by Thomas Hunt Morgan (1915)
"Two varieties of tobacco, Nicotiana alata grandi- flora and N. ... At the bft a flower of Nicotiana alata grandiflora; at the right a flower of N. ..."

4. How to Make a Flower Garden: A Manual of Practical Information and Suggestions by Wilhelm Miller (1903)
"Six annuals that re-sow themselves—likely varii'gatus. Nicotiana alata. ... Nicotiana alata. ..."

5. Our Garden Flowers: A Popular Study of Their Native Lands, Their Life by Harriet Louise Keeler (1910)
"Nicotiana alata is a deservedly popular plant of easy culture and ... Nicotiana alata the pure-white and something of the poise of Narcissus poeticus. ..."

6. Report by New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Botanical Dept (1908)
"The flowers, similar in form to Nicotiana alata, had a shorter tube, the petals being white above and pink beneath. The hybrid bloomed at evening, ..."

7. Application of Rflp & Rapd Molecular Technologies to Plant Breeding: A edited by Andrew Kalinski (1994)
"CC: F200; F600 AB: Three alleles of the self-incompatibility gene of Nicotiana alata have been cloned and sequenced. A comparison of the sequences shows a ..."

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