indian tobacco

1. 1.

   tobacco plant of South America and Mexico

   Synonymswild tobaccoNicotiana rustica

   Broadertobacco
2. 2.

   North American wild lobelia having small blue flowers and inflated capsules formerly used as an antispasmodic

   SynonymsbladderpodLobelia inflata

   Broaderlobelia

Questions about indian tobacco

What does indian tobacco mean?

indian tobacco means "tobacco plant of South America and Mexico". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for indian tobacco?

Close synonyms include wild tobacco, Nicotiana rustica, bladderpod, Lobelia inflata. 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 indian tobacco a common word?

indian 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.