Nicotiana Definition

nĭ-kōshē-ănə, -änə, -ānə
noun
Any of a genus (Nicotiana) of New World plants of the nightshade family, including tobacco and several species with fragrant flowers, grown as ornamentals.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • genus Nicotiana
pronoun

A taxonomic genus within the family Solanaceae "” the tobacco plants.

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Noun

Singular:
nicotiana
Plural:
nicotianas

Origin of Nicotiana

  • New Latin (herba) nicotiāna (herb of) Nicot, nicotiana after Jean Nicot (1530?–1600), French diplomat

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • New Latin, from Jean Nicot, French ambassador to Portugal, who sent seeds back to France in 1561, + -iana

    From Wiktionary

  • From the genus name

    From Wiktionary

Nicotiana Sentence Examples

  • The name is taken from Nicotiana, the tobacco plant, so called after Jean Nicot (1530-1600), French ambassador at Lisbon, who introduced tobacco into France in 1560.

  • Mexican tobaccos (Nicotiana Tabacum, variety macrophyllum) are to-day predominant in a large part of Cuban vegas..

  • The services rendered by Nicot in spreading a knowledge of the plant have been commemorated in the scientific name of the genus Nicotiana.

  • There are about fifty species of Nicotiana, nearly all of which are natives of America.

  • William Bragge of Birmingham published in 1880 a revised bibliography of the subject, Bibliotheca nicotiana, extending to 248 quarto pages.

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