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to·bac·co  (t-bk)

n. pl. to·bac·cos or to·bac·coes

1. Any of various plants of the genus Nicotiana, especially N. tabacum, native to tropical America and widely cultivated for their leaves, which are used primarily for smoking.

2. The leaves of these plants, dried and processed chiefly for use in cigarettes, cigars, or snuff or for smoking in pipes.

3. Products made from these plants.

4. The habit of smoking tobacco: I gave up tobacco.

5. A crop of tobacco.

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[Spanish tabaco, possibly of Caribbean origin.]

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tobacco [təˈbækəʊ]

n pl -cos, -coes

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of numerous solanaceous plants of the genus Nicotiana, having mildly narcotic properties, tapering hairy leaves, and tubular or funnel-shaped fragrant flowers. The species N. tabacum is cultivated as the chief source of commercial tobacco

2. (Law / Recreational Drugs) the leaves of certain of these plants dried and prepared for snuff, chewing, or smoking

[from Spanish tabaco, perhaps from Taino: leaves rolled for smoking, assumed by the Spaniards to be the name of the plant]

tobaccoless  adj

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Tobacco 

See Also: SMELLS

1. An acrid cigar held tightly in your teeth, you look like a banker or a psychiatrist or both —Daniela Gioseffi
2. Ash flows like a breaking thundercloud from his clenched cigar —Harvey Swados
3. Ashtray … crammed with smoked cigarettes like dead bugs —John Rechy
4. Blowing a cloud of coarse smoke [from pipe], like a steam roller —Frank Swinnerton
5. (I lit) a cigar, a cheap twisted black thing like half a pepperoni —T. Coraghessan Boyle
6. Cigarette coals dotted the room like watchfires —Thomas Pynchon
7. Cigarettes … dangle from his lips like a second tongue —Jonathan Valin
8. Cigarettes tasted like hot ashes —Anthony E. Stockanes
9. Cigars … when lit, they exuded an overwhelming odor, like burning manure from constipated giraffes —Richard S. Prather
10. A dead cigar which was always in his hand, seemed to belong there, like a thumb or finger —Willa Cather
11. The glow in the bowl of his pipe went on and off like a firefly —Jean Stafford
12. A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman —Edward Bulwer-Lytton
13. His cheeks puffed [from smoking a cigar] like a bellows —Jay Parini
14. His cigar … had become a natural appendage … like a pipe stuck in the face of a snowman —Robert Traver
15. It [tobacco] smells like Saturday, and consequently puts me in a chronic holiday mood —Robert Benchley
16. It [cigarette] tasted like burning rope —F. Van Wyck Mason
17. Lit his stogy, which flared up like a burning bush —Arthur Train
18. My psyche felt as different without cigarettes as my body felt in moving from air to water —Norman Mailer
19. Removed his water-logged cigar, like a man calmly unscrewing his nose —Robert Traver
20. The smell of good tobacco … heavy as incense in a church —Howard Spring
21. Smoked like a chimney —Richard Harris Barham
22. The smoke of cigars and cigarettes like curtains before the lights —R. Wright Campbell
23. Smoking his clay pipe with the elegance of an Indian chief —Andre Malraux
24. Stubbed out the cigarette as if he were squashing a cockroach —Derek Lambert
25. The tip of his narrow cigarette danced like a tiny ballerina in the dark —Nelson Algren
26. Took another deep drag of his cigarette, letting the smoke curl up out of his mouth and around his head like ectoplasm —Margaret Millar
27. To smoke a cigar through a mouthpiece is the equivalent of kissing a lady through a respirator —Anon

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tobacco

• blend - A combination of different types or grades of fabric, spirits, tea, tobacco, etc.
• tabac - A color, from the French for tobacco.
• cud, quid - The etymological base of cud appears to be "glutinous substance"; quid—"piece of tobacco for chewing"—is a variant of cud.
• petunia - It is related to the tobacco plant, hence its name, from Portuguese petum, "tobacco."

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	tobacco - leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion baccy drug of abuse, street drug - a drug that is taken for nonmedicinal reasons (usually for mind-altering effects); drug abuse can lead to physical and mental damage and (with some substances) dependence and addiction filler - the tobacco used to form the core of a cigar roll of tobacco, smoke - tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder smoking mixture - a blend of tobaccos to be smoked in a pipe snuff - finely powdered tobacco for sniffing up the nose common tobacco, Nicotiana tabacum - tall erect South American herb with large ovate leaves and terminal clusters of tubular white or pink flowers; cultivated for its leaves nicotine - an alkaloid poison that occurs in tobacco; used in medicine and as an insecticide shag - a strong coarse tobacco that has been shredded Turkish tobacco - a dark aromatic tobacco of eastern Europe that is used in cigarettes plant product - a product made from plant material
	2.	tobacco - aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubs tobacco plant herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests genus Nicotiana, Nicotiana - American and Asiatic aromatic herbs and shrubs with viscid foliage flowering tobacco, Jasmine tobacco, Nicotiana alata - South American ornamental perennial having nocturnally fragrant greenish-white flowers common tobacco, Nicotiana tabacum - tall erect South American herb with large ovate leaves and terminal clusters of tubular white or pink flowers; cultivated for its leaves Indian tobacco, Nicotiana rustica, wild tobacco - tobacco plant of South America and Mexico mustard tree, Nicotiana glauca, tree tobacco - evergreen South American shrub naturalized in United States; occasionally responsible for poisoning livestock

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tobacco

noun

Quotations
"There's nothing like tobacco; it is the passion of all decent men; a man who lives without tobacco does not deserve to live" [Molière Don Juan]
"A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?" [Oscar Wilde Picture of Dorian Gray]
"Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys,"
"Unfriendly to society's chief joys" [William Cowper Conversation]
"A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless" [James I A Counterblast to Tobacco]

Tobacco

Tobacco types 
broadleaf, Burley, canaster, caporal, chewing tobacco, cigar binder, cigar filler, cigar wrapper, Cuban cigar leaf, dark air-cured, filler, fire-cured, flue-cured, makhorka, Maryland, perique, rappee, shag, snout (Brit. slang), snuff, Sumatra, Turkish, Virginia

Types of cigar and cigarette 
breva, cheroot, cigarillo, claro, concha, corona, Havana, imperiale, maduro, Manila, panatella, perfecto, puritano, roll-up, roll-your-own, stogy or stogey, tailor-made (slang)

Pipes 
briar, calabash (rare), clay pipe, corncob pipe, churchwarden, hookah or hubble-bubble, meerschaum, peace pipe

General smoking terms 
ash, ashtray, bowl, butt, calabash, cigarette case, cigarette holder, cigarette paper, dottle, filter tip, flint, humidor, lighter, makings (slang), matches, pigtail, pipe, pipe cleaner, pipe rack, plug, rollings (slang), smoking jacket, smoker or smoking compartment, smoke room or smoking room, snuffbox, splint, stem, tobacconist, tobacco pouch

Translations

tobacco [təˈbækəʊ]

A. N (tobaccos, tobaccoes (pl)) → tabaco m
see also pipe

B. CPD tobacco industry N → industria f tabacalera
tobacco jar N → tabaquera f
tobacco plant N → planta f de tabaco
tobacco plantation N → tabacal m
tobacco pouch N → petaca f

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tobacco [təˈbækəʊ] n → tabac m
pipe tobacco → tabac à pipe
tobacco industry n → industrie f du tabac
tobacco leaf n → feuille f de tabac

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tobacco

n → Tabak m

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tobacco:

tobacco group

n → Tabakkonzern m

tobacco jar

n → Tabak(s)dose f

tobacco leaf

n → Tabakblatt nt

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tobacco:

tobacco plantation

n → Tabakplantage f

tobacco pouch

n → Tabak(s)beutel m

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tobacco [təˈbækəʊ] n → tabacco
pipe tobacco → tabacco da pipa

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tobacco

n tobacco [təˈbӕkəu]

(a type of plant that has) leaves that are dried and used for smoking in pipes, cigarettes, cigars etc, or as snuff Tobacco is bad for your health. tabak تبْغ، دُخان тютюн tabák tobak der Tabak καπνός tabaco tubakas توتون tupakka tabac טַבָּק तम्बाकू duhan dohány tembakau tóbak tabacco 煙草の葉 담배 tabakas tabaka tembakau tabak tytoń tabaco tutun табак tobak duvan tobak ยาสูบ tütün 煙葉，煙草 тютюн تمباکو thuốc lá 烟叶，烟草

n toˈbacconist [-nist]

a person who sells tobacco, cigarettes etc. tabakverkoper بائِع السَّجائِر продавач на тютюневи изделия trafikant, -ka tobakshandler der/die Tabakhändler(in) καπνοπώλης estanquero tubakapoodnik سیگار فروش tupakkakauppias marchand/-ande de tabac מוֹכֵר טַבָּק तम्बाकू पीने वाला prodavač duhanskih proizvoda trafik(os) penjual tembakau tóbakssali tabaccaio 煙草屋 담배 가계 tabako pardavėjas tabakas izstrādājumu pārdevējs penjual barang-barang tembakau tabakshandelaar tobakkshandler sprzedawca wyrobów tytoniowych vendedor de tabaco persoană care vinde tutun, ţigări торговец табачными изделиями trafikant, -ka trafikant duvandžija tobakshandlare พ่อค้าขายผลิตภัณฑ์ประเภทยาสูบ sigara bayii 煙草商 торговець тютюновими виробами تمباکو فرقش người bán thuốc lá 烟草商

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tobacco → تبغ tabák tobak Tabak καπνός tabaco tupakka tabac duhan tabacco タバコ 담배 tabak tobakk tytoń tabaco табак tobak ต้นยาสูบ tütün cây thuốc lá 烟草