| slovo | definícia |
nicotian
(encz) | nicotian,tabákový |
Nicotian
(gcide) | Nicotian \Ni*co"tian\ (n[i^]*k[=o]"shan), n. [F. nicotiane; --
so called from Nicot, who introduced it into France, a. d.
1560.]
Tobacco. [R.] --B. Jonson.
[1913 Webster] |
Nicotian
(gcide) | Nicotian \Ni*co"tian\, a.
Pertaining to, or derived from, tobacco. [R.] --Bp. Hall.
[1913 Webster] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
Nicotian
(gcide) | Nicotian \Ni*co"tian\ (n[i^]*k[=o]"shan), n. [F. nicotiane; --
so called from Nicot, who introduced it into France, a. d.
1560.]
Tobacco. [R.] --B. Jonson.
[1913 Webster]Nicotian \Ni*co"tian\, a.
Pertaining to, or derived from, tobacco. [R.] --Bp. Hall.
[1913 Webster] |
Nicotiana
(gcide) | Nicotiana \Ni*co`ti*a"na\, prop. n. [NL. See Nicotian.] (Bot.)
A genus of American and Asiatic solanaceous herbs, with
viscid foliage and funnel-shaped blossoms. Several species
yield tobacco. See Tobacco.
[1913 Webster] |
Nicotiana Persica
(gcide) | Tobacco \To*bac"co\, n. [Sp. tabaco, fr. the Indian tabaco the
tube or pipe in which the Indians or Caribbees smoked this
plant. Some derive the word from Tabaco, a province of
Yucatan, where it was said to be first found by the
Spaniards; others from the island of Tobago, one of the
Caribbees. But these derivations are very doubtful.]
1. (Bot.) An American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of the
Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and
as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and
cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an
acrid taste.
[1913 Webster]
Note: The name is extended to other species of the genus, and
to some unrelated plants, as Indian tobacco ({Nicotiana
rustica}, and also Lobelia inflata), mountain tobacco
(Arnica montana), and Shiraz tobacco ({Nicotiana
Persica}).
[1913 Webster]
2. The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing,
etc., by being dried, cured, and manufactured in various
ways.
[1913 Webster]
Tobacco box (Zool.), the common American skate.
Tobacco camphor. (Chem.) See Nicotianine.
Tobacco man, a tobacconist. [R.]
Tobacco pipe.
(a) A pipe used for smoking, made of baked clay, wood, or
other material.
(b) (Bot.) Same as Indian pipe, under Indian.
Tobacco-pipe clay (Min.), a species of clay used in making
tobacco pipes; -- called also cimolite.
Tobacco-pipe fish. (Zool.) See Pipemouth.
Tobacco stopper, a small plug for pressing down the tobacco
in a pipe as it is smoked.
Tobacco worm (Zool.), the larva of a large hawk moth
(Sphinx Carolina syn. Phlegethontius Carolina). It is
dark green, with seven oblique white stripes bordered
above with dark brown on each side of the body. It feeds
upon the leaves of tobacco and tomato plants, and is often
very injurious to the tobacco crop. See Illust. of {Hawk
moth}.
[1913 Webster] |
Nicotiana rustica
(gcide) | Tobacco \To*bac"co\, n. [Sp. tabaco, fr. the Indian tabaco the
tube or pipe in which the Indians or Caribbees smoked this
plant. Some derive the word from Tabaco, a province of
Yucatan, where it was said to be first found by the
Spaniards; others from the island of Tobago, one of the
Caribbees. But these derivations are very doubtful.]
1. (Bot.) An American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of the
Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and
as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and
cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an
acrid taste.
[1913 Webster]
Note: The name is extended to other species of the genus, and
to some unrelated plants, as Indian tobacco ({Nicotiana
rustica}, and also Lobelia inflata), mountain tobacco
(Arnica montana), and Shiraz tobacco ({Nicotiana
Persica}).
[1913 Webster]
2. The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing,
etc., by being dried, cured, and manufactured in various
ways.
[1913 Webster]
Tobacco box (Zool.), the common American skate.
Tobacco camphor. (Chem.) See Nicotianine.
Tobacco man, a tobacconist. [R.]
Tobacco pipe.
(a) A pipe used for smoking, made of baked clay, wood, or
other material.
(b) (Bot.) Same as Indian pipe, under Indian.
Tobacco-pipe clay (Min.), a species of clay used in making
tobacco pipes; -- called also cimolite.
Tobacco-pipe fish. (Zool.) See Pipemouth.
Tobacco stopper, a small plug for pressing down the tobacco
in a pipe as it is smoked.
Tobacco worm (Zool.), the larva of a large hawk moth
(Sphinx Carolina syn. Phlegethontius Carolina). It is
dark green, with seven oblique white stripes bordered
above with dark brown on each side of the body. It feeds
upon the leaves of tobacco and tomato plants, and is often
very injurious to the tobacco crop. See Illust. of {Hawk
moth}.
[1913 Webster] |
Nicotiana rusticum
(gcide) | Nicotine \Nic"o*tine\ (? or ?), n. [F. nicotine. See
Nicotian.] (Chem.)
An alkaloid which is the active principle of tobacco
(C10H14N2). It occurs in tobacco plants ({Nicotiana
tabacum} and Nicotiana rusticum) to the extent of 2 to 8%,
in combination with malic acid or citric acid. It is a
colorless, transparent, oily liquid, having an acrid odor,
and an acrid burning taste. It is intensely poisonous. The
apparently addictive effects of tobacco smoking have been
ascribed largely to the effect of nicotine, and the
controlled administration of nicotine on various forms has
been used as a technique for assisting efforts to stop the
smoking habit. --Ure.
[1913 Webster +PJC] |
Nicotiana tabacum
(gcide) | Nicotine \Nic"o*tine\ (? or ?), n. [F. nicotine. See
Nicotian.] (Chem.)
An alkaloid which is the active principle of tobacco
(C10H14N2). It occurs in tobacco plants ({Nicotiana
tabacum} and Nicotiana rusticum) to the extent of 2 to 8%,
in combination with malic acid or citric acid. It is a
colorless, transparent, oily liquid, having an acrid odor,
and an acrid burning taste. It is intensely poisonous. The
apparently addictive effects of tobacco smoking have been
ascribed largely to the effect of nicotine, and the
controlled administration of nicotine on various forms has
been used as a technique for assisting efforts to stop the
smoking habit. --Ure.
[1913 Webster +PJC]Tobacco \To*bac"co\, n. [Sp. tabaco, fr. the Indian tabaco the
tube or pipe in which the Indians or Caribbees smoked this
plant. Some derive the word from Tabaco, a province of
Yucatan, where it was said to be first found by the
Spaniards; others from the island of Tobago, one of the
Caribbees. But these derivations are very doubtful.]
1. (Bot.) An American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of the
Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and
as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and
cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an
acrid taste.
[1913 Webster]
Note: The name is extended to other species of the genus, and
to some unrelated plants, as Indian tobacco ({Nicotiana
rustica}, and also Lobelia inflata), mountain tobacco
(Arnica montana), and Shiraz tobacco ({Nicotiana
Persica}).
[1913 Webster]
2. The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing,
etc., by being dried, cured, and manufactured in various
ways.
[1913 Webster]
Tobacco box (Zool.), the common American skate.
Tobacco camphor. (Chem.) See Nicotianine.
Tobacco man, a tobacconist. [R.]
Tobacco pipe.
(a) A pipe used for smoking, made of baked clay, wood, or
other material.
(b) (Bot.) Same as Indian pipe, under Indian.
Tobacco-pipe clay (Min.), a species of clay used in making
tobacco pipes; -- called also cimolite.
Tobacco-pipe fish. (Zool.) See Pipemouth.
Tobacco stopper, a small plug for pressing down the tobacco
in a pipe as it is smoked.
Tobacco worm (Zool.), the larva of a large hawk moth
(Sphinx Carolina syn. Phlegethontius Carolina). It is
dark green, with seven oblique white stripes bordered
above with dark brown on each side of the body. It feeds
upon the leaves of tobacco and tomato plants, and is often
very injurious to the tobacco crop. See Illust. of {Hawk
moth}.
[1913 Webster] |
Nicotiana Tabacum
(gcide) | Nicotine \Nic"o*tine\ (? or ?), n. [F. nicotine. See
Nicotian.] (Chem.)
An alkaloid which is the active principle of tobacco
(C10H14N2). It occurs in tobacco plants ({Nicotiana
tabacum} and Nicotiana rusticum) to the extent of 2 to 8%,
in combination with malic acid or citric acid. It is a
colorless, transparent, oily liquid, having an acrid odor,
and an acrid burning taste. It is intensely poisonous. The
apparently addictive effects of tobacco smoking have been
ascribed largely to the effect of nicotine, and the
controlled administration of nicotine on various forms has
been used as a technique for assisting efforts to stop the
smoking habit. --Ure.
[1913 Webster +PJC]Tobacco \To*bac"co\, n. [Sp. tabaco, fr. the Indian tabaco the
tube or pipe in which the Indians or Caribbees smoked this
plant. Some derive the word from Tabaco, a province of
Yucatan, where it was said to be first found by the
Spaniards; others from the island of Tobago, one of the
Caribbees. But these derivations are very doubtful.]
1. (Bot.) An American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of the
Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and
as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and
cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an
acrid taste.
[1913 Webster]
Note: The name is extended to other species of the genus, and
to some unrelated plants, as Indian tobacco ({Nicotiana
rustica}, and also Lobelia inflata), mountain tobacco
(Arnica montana), and Shiraz tobacco ({Nicotiana
Persica}).
[1913 Webster]
2. The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing,
etc., by being dried, cured, and manufactured in various
ways.
[1913 Webster]
Tobacco box (Zool.), the common American skate.
Tobacco camphor. (Chem.) See Nicotianine.
Tobacco man, a tobacconist. [R.]
Tobacco pipe.
(a) A pipe used for smoking, made of baked clay, wood, or
other material.
(b) (Bot.) Same as Indian pipe, under Indian.
Tobacco-pipe clay (Min.), a species of clay used in making
tobacco pipes; -- called also cimolite.
Tobacco-pipe fish. (Zool.) See Pipemouth.
Tobacco stopper, a small plug for pressing down the tobacco
in a pipe as it is smoked.
Tobacco worm (Zool.), the larva of a large hawk moth
(Sphinx Carolina syn. Phlegethontius Carolina). It is
dark green, with seven oblique white stripes bordered
above with dark brown on each side of the body. It feeds
upon the leaves of tobacco and tomato plants, and is often
very injurious to the tobacco crop. See Illust. of {Hawk
moth}.
[1913 Webster] |
Nicotianine
(gcide) | Nicotianine \Ni*co"ti*a*nine\ (? or ?), n. [F. nicotianine. See
Nicotian.] (Chem.)
A white waxy substance having a hot, bitter taste, extracted
from tobacco leaves and called also tobacco camphor.
[1913 Webster] |
genus nicotiana
(wn) | genus Nicotiana
n 1: American and Asiatic aromatic herbs and shrubs with viscid
foliage [syn: Nicotiana, genus Nicotiana] |
nicotiana
(wn) | Nicotiana
n 1: American and Asiatic aromatic herbs and shrubs with viscid
foliage [syn: Nicotiana, genus Nicotiana] |
nicotiana alata
(wn) | Nicotiana alata
n 1: South American ornamental perennial having nocturnally
fragrant greenish-white flowers [syn: flowering tobacco,
Jasmine tobacco, Nicotiana alata] |
nicotiana glauca
(wn) | Nicotiana glauca
n 1: evergreen South American shrub naturalized in United
States; occasionally responsible for poisoning livestock
[syn: tree tobacco, mustard tree, Nicotiana glauca] |
nicotiana rustica
(wn) | Nicotiana rustica
n 1: tobacco plant of South America and Mexico [syn: {wild
tobacco}, Indian tobacco, Nicotiana rustica] |
nicotiana tabacum
(wn) | Nicotiana tabacum
n 1: tall erect South American herb with large ovate leaves and
terminal clusters of tubular white or pink flowers;
cultivated for its leaves [syn: common tobacco,
Nicotiana tabacum] |
|