tobacco Definition
to·bacco (tə bak′ō)
noun pl. -·cos
- any of a genus (Nicotiana) of chiefly tropical American plants of the nightshade family, with hairy, sticky foliage and long-tubed, white, yellow, greenish, or purple flowers; esp., the species (N. tabacum) now widely cultivated for its leaves
- the leaves of certain of these plants, prepared for smoking, chewing, or snuffing
- products prepared from these leaves; cigars, cigarettes, snuff, etc.
- the use of tobacco for smoking, etc.
Etymology: Sp tabaco < ?; perhaps an old Sp name transferred to the New World plant
tobacco Synonyms
tobacco
n.
tobacco Usage Examples
Converse of object
- chew: Read more... The best way to avoid these cancers is to never start smoking or chewing tobacco in any form.
- hand-rolling: Raise tax on hand-rolling tobacco to dissuade smokers from switching from manufactured cigarettes to roll-your-own.
- smoke: Many people who smoke tobacco find it easier to smoke cannabis than non-smokers.
- roll: Never live with your sister, he said, pinching a thin ridge of rolling tobacco into position.
- advertize: Any fixtures or fittings such as awnings that carry a tobacco brand name or logo that advertises tobacco is not permitted.
- consume: State and federal revenues from tobacco consumed by minors.
Adjective modifier
- smokeless: Every can of Bandits contain 20 compact pouches of premium, high-quality Skoal moist smokeless tobacco.
- stale: The smell of stale tobacco pervades all the public areas including the ' no smoking ' lounge area.
- cheap: This frontier town is a tobacco center replete with piracy images because it represents the first port of call of very cheap tobacco.
Modifies a noun
- smoke: In recent years there has also been growing interest in tobacco smoke in enclosed public places.
- smuggling: Following the March 2000 Budget, the Government set out plans to tackle tobacco smuggling.
- advertising: Without a range of further measures, ending tobacco advertising would not deliver a large enough impact on the problem.
- sponsorship: Obviously there'll be a more significant change in 2007 when tobacco sponsorship comes to an end.
- consumption: Tax revenue Part of the adjustment to major declines in tobacco consumption will be some fall in tobacco tax revenue.
- taxation: This paper gives views on tobacco taxation in advance of the forthcoming Budget.
Noun used with modifier
- smoking: The risks to health from smoking tobacco are well documented.
- smuggling: Some miners used this as an excuse for smuggling contraband tobacco underground.
- cigar: Pipes and cigar tobacco contain a higher concentration of sulfur that produces stronger bad breath.
- clay: It may even have been a smoking room, for some early clay tobacco pipes were found in the moat.
- pipe: Certainly, anyone whose cigar explodes, or in whose pipe tobacco shredded asbestos is found, should have a remedy.
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