common tobacco

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   tall erect South American herb with large ovate leaves and terminal clusters of tubular white or pink flowers; cultivated for its leaves

   SynonymsNicotiana tabacum

   Broadertobacco

Questions about common tobacco

What does common tobacco mean?

common tobacco means "tall erect South American herb with large ovate leaves and terminal clusters of tubular white or pink flowers; cultivated for its leaves".

What is another word for common tobacco?

Close synonyms include Nicotiana tabacum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is common tobacco a common word?

common tobacco is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.