Download the app
educalingo
Search

Meaning of "tobacco plant" in the English dictionary

Dictionary
DICTIONARY
section

PRONUNCIATION OF TOBACCO PLANT

tobacco plant  [təˈbækəʊ plɑːnt] play
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TOBACCO PLANT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tobacco plant is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TOBACCO PLANT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

tobacco plant

Tobacco

Tobacco is a plant within the genus Nicotiana of the Solanaceae family. While there are more than 70 species of tobacco, the chief commercial crop is N. tabacum. The more potent species N. rustica is also widely used around the world. Dried tobacco leaves are mainly smoked in cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco and flavored shisha tobacco. They are also consumed as snuff, chewing tobacco and dipping tobacco. Tobacco contains the alkaloid nicotine, a stimulant. Tobacco use is a risk factor for diseases affecting the heart, liver and lungs. According to the World Health Organization, tobacco is the single greatest cause of preventable death globally.

Definition of tobacco plant in the English dictionary

The definition of tobacco plant in the dictionary is any of numerous solanaceous plants of the genus Nicotiana, having mildly narcotic properties, tapering hairy leaves, and tubular or funnel-shaped fragrant flowers. The species N. tabacum is cultivated as the chief source of commercial tobacco.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TOBACCO PLANT


aren´t
ɑːnt
aslant
əˈslɑːnt
aunt
ɑːnt
can´t
kɑːnt
chant
tʃɑːnt
courant
kʊˈrɑːnt
courante
kʊˈrɑːnt
debutante
ˈdɛbjʊˌtɑːnt
eggplant
ˈɛɡˌplɑːnt
explant
ɛksˈplɑːnt
galant
ɡəˈlɑːnt
gant
ɡɑːnt
grant
ɡrɑːnt
implant
ɪmˈplɑːnt
plant
plɑːnt
replant
riːˈplɑːnt
slant
slɑːnt
supplant
səˈplɑːnt
tea-plant
ˈtiːˌplɑːnt
transplant
trænsˈplɑːnt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TOBACCO PLANT

tobaccanalian
tobacco
tobacco industry
tobacco jar
tobacco leaf
tobacco mosaic virus
tobacco planter
tobacco pouch
tobaccoless
tobacconist
Tobago
Tobagonian
Tobey
tobies
Tobin tax
Tobit
toboggan
toboggan run
tobogganer
tobogganist

WORDS THAT END LIKE TOBACCO PLANT

air plant
assembly plant
bone marrow transplant
bottling plant
chemical plant
face-plant
gas plant
hair transplant
heating plant
house plant
kidney transplant
manufacturing plant
nuclear plant
nuclear power plant
pilot plant
pitcher plant
pot plant
power plant
processing plant
repellant
sensitive plant

Synonyms and antonyms of tobacco plant in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tobacco plant» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR
online translator

TRANSLATION OF TOBACCO PLANT

Find out the translation of tobacco plant to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tobacco plant from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tobacco plant» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

烟草植物
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

planta de tabaco
570 millions of speakers

English

tobacco plant
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

तंबाकू के पौधे
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نبات التبغ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

табак завод
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

planta do tabaco
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

তামাক উদ্ভিদ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

plante de tabac
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tumbuhan tembakau
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Tabakpflanze
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

たばこ工場
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

담배 공장
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tanduran rokok
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cây thuốc lá
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

புகையிலை ஆலை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

तंबाखू वनस्पती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tütün bitkisi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pianta del tabacco
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tytoń
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

тютюн завод
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

plantei de tutun
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φυτό καπνού
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

tabak plant
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tobaksplanta
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tobakksplanten
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tobacco plant

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TOBACCO PLANT»

The term «tobacco plant» is regularly used and occupies the 95.562 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
0
100%
FREQUENCY
Regularly used
56
/100
The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «tobacco plant» in the different countries.
Principal search tendencies and common uses of tobacco plant
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «tobacco plant».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TOBACCO PLANT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «tobacco plant» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «tobacco plant» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tobacco plant

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TOBACCO PLANT»

Discover the use of tobacco plant in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tobacco plant and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Principal Insects Affecting the Tobacco Plant
THE PRINCIPAL INSECTS AFFECTING THE TOBACCO PLANT. INTRODUCTION. The tobacco plant, although indigenous to America, does not suffer so greatly from the attacks of insects in the United States as do others of our crop plants.
Leland Ossian Howard, 1900
2
Farmers' Bulletin
... of the disease from reaching the seed bed. No specific remedy for these diseases has been found, once they have attacked the plant, but dry weather usually checks their progress. The tobacco plant is subject to 20 Farmers' Bulletin 571.
‎1920
3
The Biography of Tobacco
Describes the history of tobacco use, discusses the growth of the tobacco industry and the legal cases surrounding advertisements and tobacco's detrimental effects on health, and explains how the plant is harvested and used.
Carrie Gleason, 2006
4
Selections from Original Contributions by James Thomson to ...
Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
James Thomson, 2012
5
Tobacco or Health?: Physiological and Social Damages Caused ...
Tobacco Plants and Their Origin Nicotiana tabacum, the tobacco plant used since ancient times in the Central and South America, does not occur naturally but is a product of human cultivation [1], being a hybrid of Nicotiana sylvestris and Nico ...
Knut-Olaf Haustein, David Groneberg, 2009
6
Making Tobacco Bright: Creating an American Commodity, 1617-1937
Combining economic theory with the history of technology, Making Tobacco Bright revises several narratives in American history, from colonial staple-crop agriculture to the origins of the tobacco industry to the rise of identity politics in ...
Barbara M. Hahn, 2011
7
Nitriles—Advances in Research and Application: 2013 Edition
... least one endogenous amino acid. “In one embodiment, the invention comprises a method for producing a modified tobacco plant comprising generating a tobacco plant having a reduced level of at least one endogenous amino acid, such ...
‎2013
8
100 Questions & Answers About How to Quit Smoking
The tobacco plant, Nicotiana tabacum, was named afterJean Nicot, the French ambassador to Portugal who first brought the plant back from Brazil in 1560. A number of tobacco species grow naturally in the Americas, all belonging to the ...
Charles Herrick, Charlotte Herrick, Marianne Mitchell, 2009
9
Durham County: A History of Durham County, North Carolina
1887; Tobacco Plant, 22 July 1885, 22 Dec. 1886, 13 July 1887, 4 Apr. 1888. 44 Tobacco Plant, 8 June 1880; ocdb, 46:109 (3 July 1879); Roberts, Lea, and Cleary, The Durham Architectural and Historic Inventory, 132, 133. 45 Tobacco Plant ...
Jean Bradley Anderson, 2011
10
Biology and Biotechnology of the Plant Hormone Ethylene II: ...
... Ohashi, Y. (1996) Ethylene biosynthesis is important for necrotic local lesion formation in tobacco, Plant Cell Physiol. 37, si 96. 6. De Laat A.M.M. and Van Loon, L.C. (1982) Regulation of ethylene biosynthesis in virus-infected tobacco ...
A.K. Kanellis, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TOBACCO PLANT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tobacco plant is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Are Cigarettes the New Joints? Get Ready for Homegrown Tobacco.
"Entrepreneurial home tobacco plant growers are cashing in on the price hike and using websites and social media pages to sell tobacco plant seeds," reports ... «Reason, Apr 15»
2
This company is putting its entire crop of tobacco plants toward …
In early August, when two American patients recovered from the Ebola virus that they had contracted in Liberia, the US medical community largely attributed their ... «Quartz, Oct 14»
3
New Method Sought to Make Ebola Drug Grown From Tobacco
ZMapp is currently made using tobacco plants, which can be induced to grow the antibodies in the drug. Federal officials have also considered an expanded ... «Bloomberg, Oct 14»
4
Tobacco plant may be key to Ebola drugs
Tobacco plant-based drugs are not a new concept. But there are no treatments currently developed through tobacco plants that have been approved by the ... «CNN, Oct 14»
5
Plant-based vaccines challenge big pharma for $3 billion flu market
Tobacco plants could be enlisted in the fight against flu even sooner if a pandemic hit. The 50 million doses that labs like Texas A&M's pledged they'd be able to ... «Reuters, Sep 14»
6
Medical 'pharming': Fighting Ebola with tobacco-plant proteins
NEW YORK -- It's an eye-catching angle in the story of an experimental treatment for Ebola: The drug comes from tobacco plants that were turned into living ... «San Jose Mercury News, Aug 14»
7
How Kentucky tobacco yielded a possible Ebola miracle drug
Tobacco plants are grown at the Kentucky BioProcessing facility in Owensboro, Ky. Plants grown here are used to manufacture an experimental drug to treat ... «The Seattle Times, Aug 14»
8
Boeing begins program to produce aviation biofuel from hybrid …
The modified hybrid tobacco plant, known as Solaris, produces oil-rich seeds – and these seeds will be used to produce aviation biofuel in the first stage of the ... «Gizmag, Aug 14»
9
Ebola Drug Made From Tobacco Plant Saves U.S. Aid Workers
The biotechnology drug, produced with tobacco plants, appears to be working. In an unusual twist of expedited drug access, Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc., ... «Bloomberg, Aug 14»
10
Hoke refinery to reopen using tobacco to make ethanol
The company has developed a tobacco plant that is a dedicated non-food fuel crop. Over the next five years, the company plans to grow its energy tobacco and ... «WRAL.com, Jun 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Tobacco plant [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/tobacco-plant>. Apr 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
en
English dictionary
Discover all that is hidden in the words on
index
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z