单词 | orinoco |
释义 | Orinocon. More fully Orinoco tobacco. A type of tobacco produced by flue-curing; (also) a cultivar of Nicotiana tabacum used to produce such tobacco. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun] > of type from specific area Trinidado1599 Verinas1624 Virginia1624 Orinoco1660 merry land1688 Virginia tobacco1700 Varinas1747 Latakia1833 tumbak1836 Shiraz1840 mahorka1857 Turkish1859 perique1865 Sobranie1899 torori1905 Yenidje1954 1660 R. Beverley Petition in Cal. Virginia State Papers (1875) I. 5 Two thousand five hundred pounds of good, sound, bright and large Arronoca tobacco. 1699 E. Ward London Spy I. viii. 6 The scent of Oronooko Tobacco no more offends the Nostrils of our Sqeamish Ladies. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Oranoco (i.e. bright and large), a Name given to the common sort of Tobacco in the Plantations of Virginia. 1708 E. Cook Sot-weed Factor 18 Broad Oronooko bright and sound, The growth and product of his ground. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 321 Oroonoka, Nicotiana. 1800 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1801) 4 365 Bursting from the effluvia of train-oil, salt-cod, and oroonoko. 1889 A. Conan Doyle Micah Clarke v. 34 Smoking his evening pipe of Oronooko. 1896 P. A. Bruce Econ. Hist. Virginia I. 436 Between the sweet-scented and the Oronoco..there were several varieties. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XVIII. 464/2 Orinoco strains of seed are sown to grow leaf for flue curing. 2001 Washington Post (Nexis) 23 Mar. (Weekend section) t32 The farm is a center of heritage plant preservation, and the fields and garden are planted with such heirloom seed stock as Orinoco tobacco, Virginia Gourdseed corn and Red May wheat. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1660 |
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