flowering tobacco
- noun
- /ˈflaʊərɪŋ təˈbækoʊ/
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tabaco floreciente
- She planted flowering tobacco alongside roses for its striking, night-blooming flowers.
- flowering tobacco (Nicotiana)
- flowering tobacco (Nicotiana alata)
- Lime Green' flowering tobacco
Examples
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Gardeners love flowering tobacco for its beautiful, fragrant flowers that bloom in the evening.
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Gardeners recommend flowering tobacco as an easy-to-grow ornamental plant with fragrant blossoms.
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The flowering tobacco added a sweet scent to the evening air in their garden.
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The flowering tobacco blooms beautifully in the summer.
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Have you seen the flowering tobacco in our garden?
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The flowering tobacco in my garden attracts many moths at night with its sweet fragrance.
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In the summer, the flowering tobacco plants fill the air with their lovely scent as they open their white blossoms at dusk.
Synonyms
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A group of scented herbs and shrubs, including tobacco, with sticky leaves
A South American garden plant with white flowers that smell sweet at night
A garden plant with sweet white flowers that open at night
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase 'flowering tobacco' is a simple adjective + noun combination: 'flowering' (bearing blossoms) modifies 'tobacco' (the Nicotiana plant), so a learner who knows both words will infer it is a tobacco plant that flowers. This compositional modifier pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows normal English grammar, making the meaning predictable and immediately comprehensible.
Etymology
Flowering tobacco names a plant that is related to tobacco but is grown for its sweet-smelling flowers. Because it often opens white-green blooms at night, the name helps you remember it is a tobacco-like plant prized for its flowers rather than for smoking.