| 单词 | tobacco |
| 释义 | tobacco (once / 210 pages) n Tobacco refers to the leaves of the tobacco plant that have been dried and processed for people to roll up and smoke. Tobacco is the main ingredient in cigarettes, and of course, chewing tobacco. Tobacco was used for fun in the Americas way before the Europeans came, but it was cultivated in France in the 1500s, and is still going strong. The word tobacco probably came from the Caribbean. The name Tobacco Road is from a novel by Erskine Caldwell, but is used to describe a section of North Carolina that produced a lot of tobacco. Tobacco is mainly used in cigarettes, which are really bad for your health. WORD FAMILYtobacco: tobaccoes, tobacconist, tobaccos+/tobacconist: tobacconists USAGE EXAMPLESThe four Tobacco Road schools hit quite a speedbump Saturday. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) They include “burdensome” school lunch standards, tobacco regulations, laws that set higher wages for contractors and elements of the Paris climate-change agreement. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) This is important if you’re trying to break a chemical addiction — to tobacco or alcohol, for instance — but also if you’re just plain struggling. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1n aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubs Syn|Hypo|Hyper tobacco plant Jasmine tobacco, Nicotiana alata, flowering tobacco South American ornamental perennial having nocturnally fragrant greenish-white flowers Nicotiana tabacum, common tobaccotall erect South American herb with large ovate leaves and terminal clusters of tubular white or pink flowers; cultivated for its leaves Indian tobacco, Nicotiana rustica, wild tobaccotobacco plant of South America and Mexico Nicotiana glauca, mustard tree, tree tobaccoevergreen South American shrub naturalized in United States; occasionally responsible for poisoning livestock herb, herbaceous plant a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests 2n leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion Syn|Hypo|Hyper baccy filler the tobacco used to form the core of a cigar roll of tobacco, smoketobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder smoking mixturea blend of tobaccos to be smoked in a pipe snufffinely powdered tobacco for sniffing up the nose shaga strong coarse tobacco that has been shredded Turkish tobaccoa dark aromatic tobacco of eastern Europe that is used in cigarettes cigara roll of tobacco for smoking butt, cigaret, cigarette, coffin nail, fagfinely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking rappeestrong snuff made from dark coarse tobacco latakiaaromatic Turkish tobacco drug of abuse, street drug a drug that is taken for nonmedicinal reasons (usually for mind-altering effects); drug abuse can lead to physical and mental damage and (with some substances) dependence and addiction plant producta product made from plant material |
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