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nicotiana

nicotiana noun: any ornamental plant of the genus Nicotiana.

nicotiana: any ornamental plant of the genus Nicotiana
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Noun (1)

nicotiana (plural nicotianas)

  1. Any ornamental plant of the genus Nicotiana
    • But strong-stemmed bushy plants like salvias, coneflowers, cosmos, marigolds, nicotianas and zinnias should be cut back only to the next strong branch or pair of branches.2007 July 12, Leslie Land, “Garden Q.&A.”, in New York Times

Noun (2)

nicotiana

  1. Literature dealing with tobacco-smoking.

nicotiana meaning in Tamil

nicotiana in Tamil

நிக்கோட்டியானா செடி

Forms of nicotiana

pluralnicotianas

Origin of nicotiana

Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Nicotiāna, from (Jean) Nicot (French ambassador to Portugal, who sent seeds back to France in 1561) + -iāna (adjective forming suffix) (feminine of -iānus).

Irregularly formed from nicoti(ne) + -ana.

Questions about nicotiana

What does nicotiana mean?
Nicotiana means any ornamental plant of the genus Nicotiana.
What is nicotiana in Tamil?
Nicotiana in Tamil is நிக்கோட்டியானா செடி. See Nicotiana meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is nicotiana?
Nicotiana is a noun.
What is the plural of nicotiana?
The plural of nicotiana is nicotianas.

Words near nicotiana in the dictionary

  1. nicotene
  2. nicothianamine
  3. nicothoid
  4. nicothoids
  5. nicotian
  6. nicotiana
  7. nicotianamine
  8. nicotianamines
  9. nicotianas
  10. nicotianin
  11. nicotianine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nicotiana (page history and authors); nicotiana (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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