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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See tobacco, 1.

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Examples

  • Culture of the troublesome and exacting tobacco-plant would continue until a profitable staple could be grown in its stead.

    Washington Richard Harwell 1968

  • Culture of the troublesome and exacting tobacco-plant would continue until a profitable staple could be grown in its stead.

    Washington Richard Harwell 1968

  • Culture of the troublesome and exacting tobacco-plant would continue until a profitable staple could be grown in its stead.

    Washington Richard Harwell 1968

  • Culture of the troublesome and exacting tobacco-plant would continue until a profitable staple could be grown in its stead.

    Washington Richard Harwell 1968

  • Though pipes are found carved on very old sculptures in China, and the habit of smoking was long since extensively followed there, according to Pallas, and although certain species of the tobacco-plant, as the

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various

  • It was quite covered with peasants, engaged in ploughing out potatoes, and in gathering the leaves of the tobacco-plant, of which there was a vast quantity.

    A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium Richard Boyle Bernard

  • The tobacco-plant consoled me when I was depressed; and the affection of my spaniel was a compensation for the loss of human sympathy and society.

    Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 2 Various

  • Arawaks or Caribs, then already under Negro influence, and at a time prior to the introduction of the tobacco-plant into Canada by the

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 Various

  • This import of the wreath is called to mind by observing that the legend on the reverse of the three-dollar gold coin of 1854 is surrounded by a wreath of the leaves of the tobacco-plant and cereals.

    The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886 Various

  • Among the eight or ten species of the tobacco-plant now recognized by botanists, the _Nicotiana tabacum_ and the _Nicotiana rustica_ hold the chief place.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various

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