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Lobelia inflata
(gcide) | Lobeline \Lo*be"line\, n. (Chem.)
A poisonous narcotic alkaloid extracted from the leaves of
Indian tobacco (Lobelia inflata) as a yellow oil, having a
tobaccolike taste and odor.
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Lobelia inflata
(gcide) | Lobelia \Lo*be"li*a\ (?; 106), n. [NL. So called from Lobel,
botanist to King James I.] (Bot.)
A genus of plants, including a great number of species.
Lobelia inflata, or Indian tobacco, is an annual plant of
North America, whose leaves contain a poisonous white viscid
juice, of an acrid taste. It has often been used in medicine
as an emetic, expectorant, etc. Lobelia cardinalis is the
cardinal flower, remarkable for the deep and vivid red color
of its flowers.
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Lobelia inflata
(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.
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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}).
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2. The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing,
etc., by being dried, cured, and manufactured in various
ways.
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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}.
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Lobelia inflata
(gcide) | bladderpod \blad"der*pod\ n.
1. a North American wild lobelia (Lobelia inflata) having
small blue flowers and inflated capsules formerly used as
an antispasmodic.
Syn: Indian tobacco.
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2. any of a number of annual or perennial herbs with inflated
seed pods; some are placed in the genus Lesquerella.
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3. any of several plants of the genus Physaria having
racemose yellow flowers and inflated pods.
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4. any of several hairy North American herbs having yellow
racemose flowers and inflated pods.
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lobelia inflata
(wn) | Lobelia inflata
n 1: North American wild lobelia having small blue flowers and
inflated capsules formerly used as an antispasmodic [syn:
Indian tobacco, bladderpod, Lobelia inflata] |
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