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canaster

canaster noun: coarse, dried tobacco leaves.

Noun

canaster (uncountable)

  1. (tobacco) Coarse, dried tobacco leaves.
    • The frontispiece to the first of these books, engraved on steel with much delicacy by Davenport, is so carefully drawn, and displays such refinement of humour, that it might be ascribed to Wilkie or Smirke; and in Knickerbocker, George could hardly then have become a misocapnist when he limned with...1972, William Bates, George Cruikshank: the artist, the humorist, and the man, with some account of his brother Robert, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    knaster

canaster meaning in Tamil

canaster in Tamil

நடு அமெரிக்கப் புகையிலை வகை

Synonyms of canaster

Origin of canaster

From Dutch kanaster, from Spanish canastro (“basket”). Doublet of canister and knaster.

Words that rhyme with canaster

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Questions about canaster

What does canaster mean?
Canaster means coarse, dried tobacco leaves.
What is canaster in Tamil?
Canaster in Tamil is நடு அமெரிக்கப் புகையிலை வகை. See Canaster meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is canaster?
Canaster is a noun.

Words near canaster in the dictionary

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  8. canasteros
  9. Canastota
  10. canatoxin
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Adapted from Wiktionary: canaster (page history and authors); canaster (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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