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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

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[New Latin (herba) nicotiāna, (herb of) Nicot, nicotiana, after Jean Nicot, (1530?–1600), French diplomat.]

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From the genus name

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