tabacco

Noun

tobacco (countable and uncountable, plural tobaccos or tobaccoes)

1. (uncountable) Any plant of the genus Nicotiana.
2. (uncountable) Leaves of Nicotiana tabacum and some other species cultivated and harvested to make cigarettes, cigars, snuff, for smoking in pipes or for chewing.
   • Tobacco and the plant valerian are also considered to be anaphrodisiac in their effects, diminishing sexual inclination.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 11
3. (countable) A variety of tobacco.
   • Tobaccos from the Connecticut Valley were used for wrapping cigars.

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