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tobacco plant

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Noun1.tobacco plant - aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubstobacco plant - aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubs
tobacco
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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Byline: STEWART WATKINS SCANNING the web the other day I came across an article about a company in the US that had recently completed field trials on a new plastic-producing tobacco plant.
Stretching boundaries of science by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
JOHN REYNOLDS, KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE Editor responds: Tobacco plants are big business in Malawi and some are seen in the background of a photograph of a woman who is happily affected by Presbyterian World Service and Development programming.
Up in smoke by Reynolds, John / Presbyterian Record
Errol was once the manager of a tobacco plant in New Guinea.
Died on this day by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
 
 
 
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