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to·bac·co
(tə-băk′ō)n. pl. to·bac·cos or to·bac·coes
1.
a. The tropical American plant Nicotiana tabacum of the nightshade family, widely cultivated for its leaves, which are used primarily for smoking.
b. The leaves of this plant, dried and processed chiefly for use in cigarettes, cigars, or snuff or for smoking in pipes.
2. Any of various other plants of the genus Nicotiana.
3. Products made from these plants.
4. The habit of smoking tobacco: I gave up tobacco.
[Spanish tabaco, probably partly from a Taíno word recorded by a Spanish chronicler as tabago, a tube for inhaling smoke or powdered intoxicating plants, and partly from Old Spanish atabaca, altabaca, a Mediterranean plant (Inula viscosa) having sticky, aromatic leaves widely used in traditional medicine (from Arabic al-ṭubbāq : al-, the + ṭubbāq, ṭabbāq, the plant I. viscosa, from Syriac dubāqā, birdlime, elm mucilage used as glue, from dbaq, to cling; akin to Arabic dabiqa and Hebrew dābaq, to cling).]
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tobacco
(təˈbækəʊ)n, pl -cos or -coes
1. (Plants) any of numerous solanaceous plants of the genus Nicotiana, having mildly narcotic properties, tapering hairy leaves, and tubular or funnel-shaped fragrant flowers. The species N. tabacum is cultivated as the chief source of commercial tobacco
2. (Recreational Drugs) the leaves of certain of these plants dried and prepared for snuff, chewing, or smoking
[C16: from Spanish tabaco, perhaps from Taino: leaves rolled for smoking, assumed by the Spaniards to be the name of the plant]
toˈbaccoless adj
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to•bac•co
(təˈbæk oʊ)n., pl. -cos, -coes.
1. any plant of the genus Nicotiana, of the nightshade family, esp. any of the species, as N. tabacum, whose leaves are prepared for smoking or chewing or as snuff.
2. the prepared leaves, as used in cigarettes, cigars, and pipes.
3. any product made from such leaves.
[1570–80; < Sp tabaco]
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tobacco
- blend - A combination of different types or grades of fabric, spirits, tea, tobacco, etc.
- tabac - A color, from the French for tobacco.
- cud, quid - The etymological base of cud appears to be "glutinous substance"; quid—"piece of tobacco for chewing"—is a variant of cud.
- petunia - It is related to the tobacco plant, hence its name, from Portuguese petum, "tobacco."
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Tobacco
See Also: SMELLS
- An acrid cigar held tightly in your teeth, you look like a banker or a psychiatrist or both —Daniela Gioseffi
- Ash flows like a breaking thundercloud from his clenched cigar —Harvey Swados
- Ashtray … crammed with smoked cigarettes like dead bugs —John Rechy
- Blowing a cloud of coarse smoke [from pipe], like a steam roller —Frank Swinnerton
- (I lit) a cigar, a cheap twisted black thing like half a pepperoni —T. Coraghessan Boyle
- Cigarette coals dotted the room like watchfires —Thomas Pynchon
- Cigarettes … dangle from his lips like a second tongue —Jonathan Valin
- Cigarettes tasted like hot ashes —Anthony E. Stockanes
- Cigars … when lit, they exuded an overwhelming odor, like burning manure from constipated giraffes —Richard S. Prather
- A dead cigar which was always in his hand, seemed to belong there, like a thumb or finger —Willa Cather
- The glow in the bowl of his pipe went on and off like a firefly —Jean Stafford
- A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman —Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- His cheeks puffed [from smoking a cigar] like a bellows —Jay Parini
- His cigar … had become a natural appendage … like a pipe stuck in the face of a snowman —Robert Traver
- It [tobacco] smells like Saturday, and consequently puts me in a chronic holiday mood —Robert Benchley
- It [cigarette] tasted like burning rope —F. Van Wyck Mason
- Lit his stogy, which flared up like a burning bush —Arthur Train
- My psyche felt as different without cigarettes as my body felt in moving from air to water —Norman Mailer
- Removed his water-logged cigar, like a man calmly unscrewing his nose —Robert Traver
- The smell of good tobacco … heavy as incense in a church —Howard Spring
- Smoked like a chimney —Richard Harris Barham
- The smoke of cigars and cigarettes like curtains before the lights —R. Wright Campbell
- Smoking his clay pipe with the elegance of an Indian chief —Andre Malraux
- Stubbed out the cigarette as if he were squashing a cockroach —Derek Lambert
- The tip of his narrow cigarette danced like a tiny ballerina in the dark —Nelson Algren
- Took another deep drag of his cigarette, letting the smoke curl up out of his mouth and around his head like ectoplasm —Margaret Millar
- To smoke a cigar through a mouthpiece is the equivalent of kissing a lady through a respirator —Anon
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| Noun | 1. |  tobacco - leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestiondrug of abuse, street drug - a drug that is taken for nonmedicinal reasons (usually for mind-altering effects); drug abuse can lead to physical and mental damage and (with some substances) dependence and addiction filler - the tobacco used to form the core of a cigar roll of tobacco, smoke - tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder smoking mixture - a blend of tobaccos to be smoked in a pipe snuff - finely powdered tobacco for sniffing up the nose common tobacco, Nicotiana tabacum - tall erect South American herb with large ovate leaves and terminal clusters of tubular white or pink flowers; cultivated for its leaves nicotine - an alkaloid poison that occurs in tobacco; used in medicine and as an insecticide Turkish tobacco - a dark aromatic tobacco of eastern Europe that is used in cigarettes plant product - a product made from plant material |
| 2. |  tobacco - aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubsherb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests genus Nicotiana, Nicotiana - American and Asiatic aromatic herbs and shrubs with viscid foliage flowering tobacco, Jasmine tobacco, Nicotiana alata - South American ornamental perennial having nocturnally fragrant greenish-white flowers common tobacco, Nicotiana tabacum - tall erect South American herb with large ovate leaves and terminal clusters of tubular white or pink flowers; cultivated for its leaves mustard tree, Nicotiana glauca, tree tobacco - evergreen South American shrub naturalized in United States; occasionally responsible for poisoning livestock |
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tobacco
noun
Quotations
"There's nothing like tobacco; it is the passion of all decent men; a man who lives without tobacco does not deserve to live" [Molière Don Juan]
"A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?" [Oscar Wilde Picture of Dorian Gray]
"Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys,"
"Unfriendly to society's chief joys" [William Cowper Conversation]
"A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless" [James I A Counterblast to Tobacco]
"There's nothing like tobacco; it is the passion of all decent men; a man who lives without tobacco does not deserve to live" [Molière Don Juan]
"A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?" [Oscar Wilde Picture of Dorian Gray]
"Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys,"
"Unfriendly to society's chief joys" [William Cowper Conversation]
"A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless" [James I A Counterblast to Tobacco]
Tobacco
Tobacco types broadleaf, Burley, canaster, caporal, chewing tobacco, cigar binder, cigar filler, cigar wrapper, Cuban cigar leaf, dark air-cured, filler, fire-cured, flue-cured, makhorka, Maryland, perique, rappee, shag, snout (Brit. slang), snuff, Sumatra, Turkish, Virginia
Types of cigar and cigarette breva, cheroot, cigarillo, claro, concha, corona, Havana, imperiale, maduro, Manila, panatella, perfecto, puritano, roll-up, roll-your-own, stogy or stogey, tailor-made (slang)
Pipes briar, calabash (rare), clay pipe, corncob pipe, churchwarden, hookah or hubble-bubble, meerschaum, peace pipe
General smoking terms ash, ashtray, bowl, butt, calabash, cigarette case, cigarette holder, cigarette paper, dottle, filter tip, flint, humidor, lighter, makings (slang), matches, pigtail, pipe, pipe cleaner, pipe rack, plug, rollings (slang), smoking jacket, smoker or smoking compartment, smoke room or smoking room, snuffbox, splint, stem, tobacconist, tobacco pouch
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Translations
تبغتِبْغتبْغ، دُخان
tabák
tobak
tupakka
duhan
dohány
tóbak
タバコ煙草
담배
tabakastabako pardavėjas
tabaka
tutun
tabak
tobak
tobak
ต้นยาสูบ
cây thuốc lá
tobacco
[təˈbækəʊ]Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
tobacco
[təˈbækəʊ] n → tabac mpipe tobacco → tabac à pipetobacco industry n → industrie f du tabactobacco leaf n → feuille f de tabac
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
tobacco
n → Tabak m
tobacco
:tobacco group
n → Tabakkonzern m
tobacco leaf
n → Tabakblatt nt
tobacco
:tobacco plantation
n → Tabakplantage f
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
tobacco
(təˈbӕkəu) noun – plural tobaccos – (a type of plant that has) leaves that are dried and used for smoking in pipes, cigarettes, cigars etc, or as snuff. Tobacco is bad for your health.
toˈbacconist (-nist) noun a person who sells tobacco, cigarettes etc.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
tobacco
→ تِبْغ tabák tobak Tabak καπνός tabaco tupakka tabac duhan tabacco タバコ 담배 tabak tobakk tytoń tabaco табак tobak ต้นยาสูบ tütün cây thuốc lá 烟草Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
to·bac·co
n. tabacco, planta americana de la Nicotiana tabacum cuyas hojas preparadas contienen nicotina, sustancia tóxica perjudicial a la salud;
___ smoke pollution → contaminación por humo de ___;
___ use disorder → trastorno por uso de ___.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
Collins Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
tobacco
adj tabáquico; n (pl -cos) tabaco; chewing — tabaco de mascar; smokeless — tabaco sin humo; — use tabaquismoEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.