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nicotiana

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ni·co·ti·an·a  (n-ksh-n, -än, -n)
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Any of various flowering annual or perennial herbs of the genus Nicotiana, native to the Americas and including the tobacco plant and ornamental species with fragrant flowers.
[New Latin (herba) nicotina, (herb of) Nicot, nicotiana, after Jean Nicot (1530?-1600), French diplomat.]
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Noun1.nicotianaNicotiana - American and Asiatic aromatic herbs and shrubs with viscid foliage
genus Nicotiana
asterid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs
family Solanaceae, potato family, Solanaceae - large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra
tobacco plant, tobacco - aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubs
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Even within the limits of the same genus, we meet with this same difference; for instance, the many species of Nicotiana have been more largely crossed than the species of almost any other genus; but Gartner found that N.
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