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wild tobacco

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Noun1.wild tobacco - tobacco plant of South America and Mexicowild tobacco - tobacco plant of South America and Mexico
tobacco plant, tobacco - aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubs


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The pueblos gladly awaited them, ready to barter with their corn, squash, wild tobacco and woven cotton blankets.
Meanwhile, Johannes van Staden and his colleagues in South Africa had been testing compounds on their local flora, and Ian Baldwin, now at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, focused on Nicotiana attenuata, one of the wild tobacco relatives native to the U.
HOUSE OF STYLE: Male bower birds scour the forest for colorful knick-knacks--purple wild tobacco blossoms, blue parrot feathers, white snail shells--to carpet the entranceways to their elaborately built huts, The bright colors help lure mates.
 
 
 
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