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‖ nicotiana Bot.|nɪkəʊʃɪˈeɪnə|
[mod.L. (sc. herba), f. the name of Jacques Nicot, French ambassador at Lisbon, by whom tobacco was introduced into France in 1560.]
1. The tobacco-plant. Also personified.
1600Surflet Countrie Farme ii. xliv. 281 This herbe is called Nicotiana, of the name of an ambassadour which brought the first knowledge of it into this realme. 1646G. Daniel Poems Wks. (Grosart) I. 51 Come my Nicotiana; weele renew Our free delights. 1688Holme Armoury ii. 70/1 A Tobacco flower..is called the Nicotiana or Male petum, and Holy Hearbe. 1826Henry Elem. Chem. II. 329 The active properties of tobacco (nicotiana).
2. A genus of plants (chiefly American) of the nightshade family, to which the tobacco-plant (N. Tabacum) belongs.
1846Lindley Veget. Kingd. 620 Tobacco..is the foliage of various species of Nicotiana. |
