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tobacco

tobacco

871 1.4
Dried processed leaves people smoke or chew to get nicotine
  • noun
  • /təˈbækoʊ/
translation icon : tabaco
  • Gentlemen, is tobacco or is nicotine addictive?
  • tobacco products
  • tobacco use
  • smoking tobacco

What they said is tobacco may cause cancer.

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Examples

  • It's like a sweet musky tobacco and it smells so good.

  • Additionally, past efforts at tobacco harm reduction may have done more harm than good.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Can he still get his English tobacco?"

  • Grandfather left him 20% of the tobacco company.

  • Bring tobacco and matches, lots of matches.

  • Mike, is it currently illegal or legal to chew tobacco in the major leagues?

  • Finally, families signed a lease agreement that prohibited pets and tobacco smoke in the home.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Cessation of tobacco, including cigarette smoking can help.

  • Participants completed a short questionnaire on demographic information and tobacco use before the discussion.

    Academic text (2012)
  • After lunch, he rolled a cigarette using tobacco from his pouch.

Synonyms

baccy
vstobacco
  • UK
1 9.9

Tobacco that you roll into cigarettes

is the standard label for the same dried and processed leaves

Compounds

Businesses that make and sell products from tobacco, like cigarettes

A product made from tobacco leaves that people smoke or chew, like cigarettes

Smoke that comes from burning tobacco products like cigarettes or cigars

Spit stained brown after someone chews tobacco

A small bag for carrying pipe tobacco

1 3.1

A person who smokes or chews tobacco

1 1.8

A shop that sells cigarettes, cigars, and smoking pipes

1 3.2

A small tube with a bowl that you use to smoke tobacco

tobacco plant
  • Specialized
1 3.4

A plant grown for its leaves that are dried and made into cigarettes or cigars

A tall South American plant grown for its large leaves used to make cigarettes and cigars

A campaign or law that tries to stop people from using tobacco

Against using, selling, or promoting tobacco products

A person who works to stop people from using tobacco

A garden plant with sweet-smelling white flowers that open at night

A plant that lives many years and spreads by runners in shady woods

A plant from South America and Mexico used for medicine

A wild North American plant with small blue flowers and puffy seed pods once used in medicine

A garden plant with sweet white flowers that open at night

9.9

An old clay pipe with a long stem for smoking, often from 17th or 18th century England

A small bundle of tobacco leaves rolled into a cylinder for smoking

tobacco budworm
  • Specialized
8.8

A small caterpillar that eats crops like cotton, corn, and tomatoes

tobacco mosaic
  • Specialized
7.1

A disease caused by a virus that makes plant leaves show yellow patches, often in tobacco plants

tobacco mosaic virus
  • Specialized
4.7

A virus that infects tobacco and other plants, making leaves show light and dark patches

tobacco moth
  • Specialized
8.6

A small insect whose young eat tobacco and other dried plants

tobacco hornworm
  • Specialized
9.0

A large green caterpillar with white stripes that eats tobacco and similar plants

tobacco mildew
  • Specialized
7.2

A fungal disease that makes a white layer on tobacco leaves

tobacco plant
  • Specialized
3.9

A plant changed in a lab to make proteins for vaccines and medicines

tobacco wilt
  • Specialized
8.3

A disease caused by bacteria that makes tobacco, tomato, and potato leaves wilt and turn yellow

tobacco thrips
  • Specialized
9.1

A small insect that feeds on and damages tobacco and peanut plants

9.0

A fast growing evergreen shrub with yellow tube-shaped flowers that can poison livestock

A dark, strong-smelling tobacco from eastern Europe used in cigarettes and pipes

7.5

A wild plant from South America and Mexico with leaves used for smoking and not usually grown for sale

How Aromatic

Latakia
9.5
tobacco
871 1.4

Surface Forms

tobacco singular
tobaccos plural

Etymology

Tobacco comes from the Taíno word tabaco, which meant a 'pipe' or a 'roll of leaves' used for smoking. So the name stuck to the dried leaves that people smoke, chew, or sniff today.