tree tobacco

tree tobacco
noun
evergreen South American shrub naturalized in United States; occasionally responsible for poisoning livestock
Hypernyms: ↑tobacco, ↑tobacco plant

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noun
: an evergreen arborescent So. American tobacco (Nicotiana glauca) that has glaucous and glabrous foliage and yellow flowers, is naturalized in parts of the southwestern United States and in Australia and southern Africa, and is occasionally responsible for poisoning of livestock : wild tobacco

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a treelike South American plant, Nicotiana glauca, of the nightshade family, having blue-green foliage, heart-shaped leaves, and white, greenish-yellow, or purple flowers, the corolla yellow, grown as an ornamental.
[1890-95]

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