Definitions for Nicotiana

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Nicotiana ni·co·ti·a·na

Spelling: [ni-koh-shee-ey-nuh, -an-uh, - Nicotiana is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 205 anagrams from letters in Nicotiana (aaciinnot).

Definitions for Nicotiana

noun

1. any plant belonging to the genus Nicotiana, of the nightshade family, especially one grown for its ornamental value, as flowering tobacco.

Origin of Nicotiana

1590-1600; New Latin (herba) nicotiana Nicot's (herb) (after Jacques Nicot (1530-1600), said to have introduced tobacco into France); see -ian, -a

Examples for Nicotiana

In Persia most of the tobacco raised is of the species known as nicotiana Persica.

Some of the giant nicotianas are excellent subjects for temporary screens; so is tobacco, which is also a nicotiana.

Fig. 97 represents two flowers of nicotiana affinis, one of which has been cut.

The new plant (nicotiana tabacum) proved easily naturalized and adaptable to the Virginia soil.

Of this genus there are about 50 separate species, one of which, nicotiana Tabacum, supplies almost all the tobacco of commerce.

This plant (nicotiana tabacum) is indigenous to America, but the most valuable is that raised in Cuba.

There are many species of nicotiana, some of which are very ornamental.

The tobacco of commerce (nicotiana tabacum) was introduced from the West Indies.

The Virginian tobacco is the largest; it is known by a pink flower; the nicotiana rustica (common green) has a yellow flower.

There are no elaborate mummeries about our service in the temple of nicotiana.