Definition of Indian tobacco

1. Noun. Tobacco plant of South America and Mexico.

Exact synonyms: Nicotiana Rustica, Wild Tobacco
Generic synonyms: Tobacco, Tobacco Plant

2. Noun. North American wild lobelia having small blue flowers and inflated capsules formerly used as an antispasmodic.
Exact synonyms: Bladderpod, Lobelia Inflata
Generic synonyms: Lobelia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Indian Tobacco

Indian rice
Indian rosewood
Indian rupee
Indian salad
Indian senna
Indian sickness
Indian strawberry
Indian style
Indian summer
Indian summers
Indian sunburn
Indian sunburns
Indian tapir
Indian tick fever
Indian tick typhus
Indian tobacco
Indian trail
Indian turnip
Indian wrestle
Indian wrestled
Indian wrestles
Indian wrestling
Indian yellow
Indiana
Indianan
Indianans
Indianapolis
Indianeer
Indianeers
Indianisation

Literary usage of Indian tobacco

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"(For further information, see the articles on the different tribes.) indian tobacco. See LOBELIA. INDIA RUBBER. See CAOUTCHOUC. ..."

2. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1841)
"At present indian tobacco is not so suitable to European taste as that of Cuba ... The inferiority of indian tobacco is ascribed to the species cultivated, ..."

3. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1841)
"At present indian tobacco is not so suitable to European taste as that of Cuba ... The inferiority of indian tobacco is ascribed to the species cultivated, ..."

4. Control of Tobacco-related Cancers and Other Diseases: Proceedings of an by Prakash C. Gupta, James E. Hamner, P. R. Murti (1992)
"Carcinogenic potential of some indian tobacco products SUMATI V. BHIDE Cancer Research Institute, Tata Memorial Centre, Bombay, India Although there is ..."

5. Twenty Years Among Our Hostile Indians: Describing the Characteristics by James Lee Humfreville (1903)
"... or indian tobacco—Method of Preparing It for Smoking—Its Strong and Lasting Odor —How Animals Detected the Approach of Indians in the Night—Olfactory ..."

6. The principles and practice of medical jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor, Thomas Stevenson (1883)
"indian tobacco (LOBELIA INFLATA). The leaves of indian tobacco contain an acrid principle which is capable of producing poisonous effects on the brain and ..."

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