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- noun Plural form of
nicotiana .
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Examples
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Tomorrow I'll plant more tomatoes or maybe peppers, egg plants or maybe nicotianas, who knows.
Archive 2009-03-01 doyle 2009
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Tomorrow I'll plant more tomatoes or maybe peppers, egg plants or maybe nicotianas, who knows.
Guerrilla gardening doyle 2009
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A few bursts of flowers— nicotianas, wild aster, and marigolds beckon the slow, more-bumbly-than-ever bees.
Archive 2008-10-01 doyle 2008
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A few bursts of flowers— nicotianas, wild aster, and marigolds beckon the slow, more-bumbly-than-ever bees.
Late October doyle 2008
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Very excellent subjects are sunflowers, the large-growing nicotianas, castor beans, large varieties of Indian corn, and plants of like growth.
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Good plants for such use are: sunflower and castor bean for the back rows; zinnias for bright effects in the scarlets and lilacs; African marigolds for brilliant yellows; nicotianas for whites.
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The two friends sat in 'Bias's summerhouse, the scent of their tobacco mingling, while they discoursed, with the fragrance of late roses, nicotianas, lemon verbenas.
Hocken and Hunken Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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