Definition of: tobacco

(tə·bak′ō) noun pl ·cos or ·coes
1. An annual plant of the nightshade family (genus Nicotiana), especially N. tabacum, the chief source of the tobacco of commerce, originally of tropical America, but now cultivated in various parts of the world.
2. Its leaves prepared in various ways, as for smoking, chewing, snuffing, etc.
3. The use of tobacco for smoking.
4. The various products prepared from tobacco leaves, as cigarettes, cigars, etc. [<Sp. tabaco <Cariban, a tube or pipe in which the natives smoked tobacco]
TOBACCO
(Plant to 8 feet or more)