| 单词 | green tobacco |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreen tobacco a. The plant whose leaves are so used: Any one of various species of Nicotiana (N.O. Solanaceæ), esp. N. Tabacum, a native of tropical America, or N. rustica ( green tobacco or wild tobacco), now widely cultivated. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > yielding drug or narcotic > [noun] > tobacco-plant nicotian1577 queen mother herb1577 queen's herb1577 tobacco1577 nicotiana1600 Frenchman1693 sot-weed1698 tobacco-plant1761 1577 J. Frampton tr. N. Monardes Three Bookes ii. f. 34 This hearbe which commonly is called Tabaco, is an Hearbe of muche antiquitie, and knowen amongest the Indians... The proper name of it amongest the Indians is Pecielt, for the name of Tabaco is geuen to it of our Spaniardes, by reason of an Ilande that is named Tabaco. 1577 J. Frampton tr. N. Monardes Three Bookes ii. f. 35 (title) The Seconde Part..where is treated of the Tabaco, and of the Sassafras [Sp. Seqvnda Parte... Do se trata del Tabaco, y dela Sassafras]. 1588 T. Hariot Briefe Rep. Virginia sig. C3 There is an herbe [in Virginia] which is..called by the inhabitants uppówoc: In the West Indies it hath diuers names... The Spaniardes..call it Tobacco. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. v. sig. Gg5 There, whether yt diuine Tobacco were, Or Panachæa, or Polygony, Shee fownd. c1595 Capt. Wyatt in G. F. Warner Voy. R. Dudley to W. Indies (1899) 48 The high land of Paria, one of the fruitfullest places in the worlde for excellent good tobacco. 1660 Act 12 Chas. II. c. 34 §4 The planting of Tobaccho in any Phisike Garden. 1800 J. Abercrombie Every Man his Own Gardener (ed. 16) 172 Less tender kinds of annual flowers: such as..broad-leaved tobacco, basil, mignonette, and ten-week stocks. 1853 J. F. Royle Man. Materia Med. (ed. 2) 579 Tobacco..is now extensively cultivated in most parts of the world. < as lemmas |
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