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Definition of Nicotiana
1. Noun. American and Asiatic aromatic herbs and shrubs with viscid foliage.
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Solanaceae, Potato Family, Solanaceae
Member holonyms: Tobacco, Tobacco Plant
Definition of Nicotiana
1. n. A genus of American and Asiatic solanaceous herbs, with viscid foliage and funnel-shaped blossoms. Several species yield tobacco. See Tobacco.
Definition of Nicotiana
1. Noun. (gardening) Any ornamental plant of the genus ''Nicotiana'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nicotiana
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Nicotiana
Literary usage of Nicotiana
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select Extra-tropical Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1884)
"nicotiana quadrivalvis, Pursh. The native tobacco of the Missouri. An annual.
... nicotiana Tabacum, Linne.* The ordinary Tobacco-Plant of Central America. ..."
2. Breeding Crop Plants by Herbert Kendall Hayes, Ralph John Garber (1921)
"The tobacco genus, nicotiana, has been divided by earlier workers into four ...
From the standpoint of the student of plant genetics the nicotiana genus is ..."
3. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"Genus nicotiana nicotiana (named in honour of Jean Nicot, 1530-1600, who introduced
... nicotiana ACUTIFLORA (acute-flowered). Stem erect, I to 2 feet high. ..."
4. The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin (1876)
"... fresh stock—Uniform colour of the flowers on the self-fertilised plants of
the fourth generation —nicotiana tabacum, crossed and self-fertilised plants ..."
5. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1867)
"nicotiana MACROPHYLLA GIGANTEA. BT THE EDITOR. THE Parisian gardens are famous
for their ... Of this class is the nicotiana macrophylla gigantea (FIG. ..."
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