The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nicotian
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.
Nicotian
Nicotian \Ni*co"tian\, a.
Pertaining to, or derived from, tobacco. [R.]
--Bp. Hall.
Wiktionary
nicotian
a. (context dated English) Relating to, or derived from, tobacco.
Usage examples of "nicotian".
He seemed as if he might have been manufactured in a tobacco factory, so was the whole man permeated by nicotian odors of various sorts, but he politely declined to smoke during the long and wearing consultation, even with the permission of the ladies present, and stowed away in his breast pocket the cigars that Bayne pressed upon him, as he remarked, for reference at a moment of greater leisure.