nicotine
noun /ˈnɪkətiːn/
/ˈnɪkətiːn/
[uncountable]- a poisonous substance in tobacco that people become addicted to, so that it is difficult to stop smoking
- The nicotine stains on his fingers told me he was under stress.
- nicotine replacement therapy
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + nicotine- be addicted to
- be dependent on
- be stained with
- …
- addiction
- craving
- dependence
- …
Word Originearly 19th cent.: from French, from nicotiana (from modern Latin nicotiana (herba) ‘tobacco (plant)’, named after Jean Nicot, a 16th-cent. French diplomat who introduced tobacco to France in 1560) + -ine.