Definition of Nicotiana rustica

1. Noun. Tobacco plant of South America and Mexico.

Exact synonyms: Indian Tobacco, Wild Tobacco
Generic synonyms: Tobacco, Tobacco Plant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nicotiana Rustica

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

Literary usage of Nicotiana rustica

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

1. Flora of Pennsylvania by Thomas Conrad Porter (1903)
"nicotiana rustica L. WILD TOBACCO. (Man. p. 817 ; IF f. 3225.) In fields and waste places, Ont., to Minn., NY and Fla.—Pennsylvania : NORTHAMPTON. 2. ..."

2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1898)
"Corolla 4'-6' long, the tube very slender; calyx-lobes linear. 1. nicotiana rustica L. Wild Tobacco. (Fig. 3225.) nicotiana rustica ..."

3. The Chemistry of Common Life by James Finlay Weir Johnston (1871)
"Other late writers, indeed, dissent from this opinion, and consider that there can hardly be a doubt but nicotiana rustica— fi . a , , i Botanical Geography ..."

4. Principles of Geology: Being an Inquiry how for the Former Changes of the by Charles Lyell (1834)
"This he continued through several generations, until, by due perseverance, he actually changed the nicotiana rustica into the Nicotiana paniculata. ..."

5. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1873)
"This tobacco is milder than that produced by the N. tabacum, and but a small quantity is consumed in England.—Emj. Cye. nicotiana rustica, Linn. ..."

6. Genetics and Eugenics: A Text-book for Students of Biology and a Reference by William Ernest Castle, Gregor Mendel (1916)
"For example East and Hayes describe a cross between two different wild varieties of tobacco (nicotiana rustica brazilia and N. rustica ..."

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