nicotiana noun. [,nɪkɒtɪ'ɑ:nǝ, -kǝʊʃ-] E17.
[mod. Latin (see below), from Jaques Nicot, French ambassador at Lisbon, who introduced tobacco to France in 1560.]
Any of various plants of the genus Nicotiana, of the nightshade family, which includes N. tabacum, the principal source of tobacco; spec. any of several ornamental plants, esp. N. alata, grown for their night-scented trumpet-shaped flowers of various colours. Also called tobacco-plant, tobacco.

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