Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various flowering plants of the genus Nicotiana of the nightshade family, native chiefly to the Americas and including tobacco plants and ornamental species with fragrant flowers.
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- noun horticulture Any ornamental plant of the genus
Nicotiana
Etymologies
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Examples
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The path wound through the garden flanked here and there by frothy pink azaleas and the fragrant white stars of nicotiana.
Writing Workshop: What are YOU Working on? | Write to Done 2008
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This year lime green nicotiana sprouted along with bleeding hearts, calibrachoa sp?
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I am very excited about the nicotiana and read in a blog somewhere, sorry cannot remember which one, that they like extra feeding as babies.
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The nicotiana is one of the highlights of the gravel, never showing up in the beds even if I save seed and sow it there.
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Stone Quarry and those who lived above the line where nicotiana grew, used the kinni-kinik or bark of the red willow and some seven other succedanea. 194 But tobacco proper, which soon superseded all materials except hemp and opium, was first adopted by the Spaniards of Santo Domingo in A.D. 1496 and reached England in 1565.
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This is a tiny flower on a nicotiana ‘Tinkerbelle’ offspring with an even tinier little upside down caterpillar moving along the hairy staff.
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Here Ms. Daniels and Ms. McConnell collect seeds from a nicotiana, a fragrant flowering tobacco plant that they say is easy to grow.
Botanical Bounty 2008
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The two women to whose unvarying kindness all my comfort had been owing, were made happy with satin-stripe, cassis, and the inevitable nicotiana.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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Desert-men, that caused nicotiana to be proscribed by the Wahhabis, who revived against its origin a senseless and obsolete calumny.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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The porch was flickering with lights, filled with the sweetness of moss roses in a bowl and the evening fragrance of nicotiana blooming just outside the screens.
Incubus Arensberg, Ann, 1937- 1999
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