Lexic.us

Definition of Common tobacco

1. Noun. Tall erect South American herb with large ovate leaves and terminal clusters of tubular white or pink flowers; cultivated for its leaves.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Tobacco

Literary usage of Common tobacco

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

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"It has the calibre of the stem of a common tobacco pipe, and ends in a free closed extremity, so that, ..."

2. Hand-book of the Economic Products of the Punjab: With a Combined Index and by Baden Henry Baden-Powell (1868)
"Of the common tobacco, the best leaves are removed and tied up in bundles (gaddi), the rest is twisted into ropes : the latter sells for a sixth or an eight ..."

3. An Epitome of Braithwaite's Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery by William Braithwaite, Walter S. Wells (1860)
"In fact, if we moisten common tobacco with a little ammonia, we give to it a flavor which increases its value. Pound some walnut leaves with potass in a ..."

4. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"(common tobacco.) Tall, large-leaved, with a panicle of short-pedicelled flowers ... from Monterey ; which appears to The common Tobacco, of Central ..."

5. Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London by Horticultural Society of London (1848)
"common tobacco leaves 8440 1330 230 1474 Nitrated Tobacco leaves 8320 1420 ... common tobacco 134 858 Nitrated Tobacco 221 1315 In the examination of these ..."

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