tobacco
noun
any of several plants belonging to the genus Nicotiana, of the nightshade family, especially one of those species, as N. tabacum, whose leaves are prepared for smoking or chewing or as snuff.
tobaccoes
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pluralof tobacco.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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For hobbies he collects pipes, strangely blended tobaccoes, old clocks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Latakia, Shiraz, Manila, Cuba, Virginia, and Maryland produce the most valuable tobaccoes.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 by Various
Nevertheless, there was one black week when we all smoked the ordinary tobaccoes.
From My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke by Maurice Brazil Prendergast
I have given orders to the Farmers-General to treat in preference, and at a reasonable price, for the purchase of the tobaccoes of North America.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. XI by Jared Sparks
The sentries, outposts and vedettes forbear musketry; on the contrary, exchange tobaccoes sometimes, and have a snatch of conversation.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Thomas Carlyle
