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flowering tobacco
noun
- any plant belonging to the genus Nicotiana, of the nightshade family, as N. alata and N. sylvestris, having clusters of fragrant flowers that usually bloom at night, grown as an ornamental.
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The moon cleared the trees, and another too-sweet tract of the night-flowering tobacco enveloped her.
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