Indian tobacco

Indian tobacco
noun
1. tobacco plant of South America and Mexico
• Hypernyms: ↑tobacco, ↑tobacco plant
2. North American wild lobelia having small blue flowers and inflated capsules formerly used as an antispasmodic
• Syn: ↑bladderpod, ↑Lobelia inflata
• Hypernyms: ↑lobelia

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noun
Usage: usually capitalized I
Etymology: indian (II) 2
1. : an American wild lobelia (Lobelia inflata) with small blue flowers and inflated capsules formerly used as an antispasmodic
2. [probably from indian (II) 1] : hemp
3. : a wild tobacco (Nicotiana rustica)
4. : a plant of the genus Antennaria; especially : a common cat's-foot (A. plantaginifolia) of eastern No. America

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a common American plant, Lobelia inflata, of the lobelia family, having small, blue flowers and inflated capsules.
[1610-20]

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Indian tobacco noun
An American flowering plant (Lobelia inflata) with inflated seed pods
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Main Entry: ↑Indian

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Indian tobacco,
a North American weed of the lobelia family having small blue flowers and swollen capsules, used in medicine as an emetic and expectorant.

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  • Indian tobacco — Indian In di*an (?; 277), a. [From India, and this fr. Indus, the name of a river in Asia, L. Indus, Gr. ?, OPers. Hindu, name of the land on the Indus, Skr. sindhu river, the Indus. Cf. {Hindu}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Of or pertaining to India… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Indian tobacco — Indian tobacco, s. Lobelia …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Indian tobacco — n 1) an American wild lobelia (Lobelia inflata) with small blue flowers that is the source of the drug lobelia 2) LOBELIA (2) …   Medical dictionary

  • Indian tobacco — ☆ Indian tobacco n. a poisonous annual plant (Lobelia inflata) of the bellflower family, common over the E U.S., with light blue flowers in slender spikes, and inflated pods …   English World dictionary

  • Indian tobacco — a common American plant, Lobelia inflata, of the lobelia family, having small, blue flowers and inflated capsules. [1610 20] * * * ▪ plant  (species Lobelia inflata), annual plant of the family Campanulaceae, native to open woodlands of North… …   Universalium

  • Indian-tobacco — pūstažiedė lobelija statusas T sritis vardynas apibrėžtis Lobelijinių šeimos vaistinis nuodingas augalas (Lobelia inflata), paplitęs Šiaurės Amerikoje. atitikmenys: lot. Lobelia inflata angl. Indian tobacco vok. indianischer Tabak; Lobelie pranc …   Lithuanian dictionary (lietuvių žodynas)

  • Indian tobacco — noun Date: circa 1618 1. a poisonous North American annual lobelia (Lobelia inflata) with small blue or white flowers 2. a wild tobacco (Nicotiana bigelovii syn. N. quadrivalvis) found in dry valleys from southern California to southern Oregon …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • indian-tobacco — n. Lobelia (North American species, Lobelia inflata) …   New dictionary of synonyms

  • Indian tobacco — In′dian tobac co n. pln a North American plant, Lobelia inflata, lobelia family, with small blue flowers and inflated capsules • Etymology: 1610–20 …   From formal English to slang

  • Indian tobacco — /ɪndiən təˈbækoʊ/ (say indeeuhn tuh bakoh) noun a common American herb, Lobelia inflata, with small blue flowers and inflated capsules …  

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