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American and Asiatic aromatic herbs and shrubs with viscid foliage
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nicotiana
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Nicotiana is a genus of herbaceous plants and shrubs of the family Solanaceae , that is indigenous to the Americas, Australia, south west Africa and the South Pacific. Various Nicotiana species , commonly referred to as tobacco plants , are cultivated as ...
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Nicotiana \Ni*co`ti*a"na\, prop. n. [NL. See Nicotian .] (Bot.) A genus of American and Asiatic solanaceous herbs, with viscid foliage and funnel-shaped blossoms. Several species yield tobacco. See Tobacco .
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n. (context gardening English) Any ornamental plant of the genus ''Nicotiana''
Usage examples of nicotiana.
Over the years I had added border gardens along the stone walls, filled with day lilies and nicotiana, astilbe and asters, and had replaced an acre of untamed weed with a wildflower field that threw up a colorful sea of poppies, loosestrife, and cosmos.
Erica, Mirabilis, and Nicotiana, either have no such power, or the contents of the cells are not affected by the fluids employed, namely a solution of carbonate of ammonia and an infusion of raw meat.
But one of these five varieties, when used either as father or mother, and crossed with the Nicotiana glutinosa, always yielded hybrids not so sterile as those which were produced from the four other varieties when crossed with N.