nicotiana

American  

[ni-koh-shee-ey-nuh, -an-uh, -ah-nuh] / nɪˌkoʊ ʃiˈeɪ nə, -ˈæn ə, -ˈɑ nə /

noun

1. any plant belonging to the genus Nicotiana, of the nightshade family, especially one grown for its ornamental value, as flowering tobacco.

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nicotiana British  

/ -ˈeɪnə, nɪˌkəʊʃɪˈɑːnə /

noun

1. any solanaceous plant of the American and Australian genus Nicotiana, such as tobacco, having white, yellow, or purple fragrant flowers

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Etymology

Origin of nicotiana

1590–1600; < New Latin ( herba ) nicotiana Nicot's (herb) (after Jacques Nicot (1530–1600), said to have introduced tobacco into France); see -ian, -a ²

Example Sentences

The leaves of a Nicotiana benthamiana plant is pictured at Medicago greenhouse in Quebec City, August 13, 2014.

From Reuters • Mar. 27, 2022

Medicago produces the spike proteins in a genetically engineered plant, a tobacco cousin called Nicotiana benthamiana, rather than in lab cell cultures.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 15, 2021

On Nicotiana, for example, the little pods on the flower stem discolor from green to yellow, then tan, then brown.

From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2020

First, Srinivasan and Smolke engineered their strain to express a transporter protein from the tobacco plant Nicotiana tabacum that imports tropine into vacuoles.

From Nature • Sep. 1, 2020

Nicotiana plumbaginifolia, or lead-wort-leaved tobacco: radical leaves ovate, contracted at the base; stem-leaves lanceolate, clasping the stem; all undulated; corolla salver-shaped, acute.

From Nicotiana Or The Smoker's and Snuff-Taker's Companion by Meller, Henry James