tobacco

Definition von tobacco im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: any plant of the genus Nicotiana; leaves of certain varieties of the plant cultivated and harvested to make cigarettes, cigars, snuff, for smoking in pipes or for chewing; a variety of tobacco
Tobaccos from the Connecticut Valley were used for wrapping cigars.; {n} a plant much used for smoaking; leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion; {i} any of a number of plants having large leaves that are chewed or smoked; leaves of the tobacco plant; products made from tobacco leaves; a plant grown in Virginia, called green gold, used as a cash crop; leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubs; An American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of the Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and as snuff; The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing, etc; Tobacco is dried leaves which people smoke in pipes, cigars, and cigarettes. You can also refer to pipes, cigars, and cigarettes as a whole as tobacco. Try to do without tobacco and alcohol; Descriptive term, used by some, to describe a flavor component resembling the taste of raw tobacco leaf in the finish of certain red wines Seems to mainly apply to Cabernet Sauvignons from Bordeaux, France or the Napa region of California "Cigarbox" is a common term often used as a near synonym especially if a cedar-wood note in the aroma is detected (Non-smokers may have trouble with this word and its implication); Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an acrid taste; aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubs; As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and cathartic; Descriptive term, used by some, to describe a flavour component resembling the taste of raw tobacco leaf in the finish of certain red wines Seems to mainly apply to Cabernet Sauvignons from Bordeaux, France or the Napa region of California "Cigarbox" is a common term often used as a near synonym especially if a cedar-wood note in the aroma is detected (Non-smokers may have trouble with this word and its implication); Crop cultivated at Jamestown by John Rolfe that became the main export of the colony; Tobacco is the plant from which tobacco is obtained. Any of numerous species of plants in the genus Nicotiana, or the cured leaves of several of the species, used after processing in various ways for smoking, snuffing, chewing, and extracting of nicotine. Native to South America, Mexico, and the West Indies, common tobacco (N. tabacum) grows 4-6 ft (1-2 m) high and bears usually pink flowers and huge leaves, as long as 2-3 ft (0.6-1 m) and about half as wide. When Christopher Columbus reached the Americas, he reported natives using tobacco as it is used today, as well as in religious ceremonies. Believed to have medicinal properties, tobacco was introduced into Europe and the rest of the world, becoming the chief commodity that British colonists exchanged for European manufactured articles. Awareness of the numerous serious health risks posed by tobacco, including various cancers and a range of respiratory diseases, has led to campaigns against its use, but the number of tobacco users worldwide continues to rise. The World Health Organization estimates that smoking now causes three million deaths annually and within two decades will cause more deaths than any single disease. Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms Bureau of Philip Morris tobacco companies R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings Inc. British American Tobacco PLC British American Tobacco Company Ltd. 1902-76; A plant widely cultivated for its leaves, which are used primarily for smoking; the tabacum species is the major source of tobacco products; by being dried, cured, and manufactured in various ways; baccy; weed; tabacco; nicotian
Tobacco Road: Poor and uneducated rural Southerners
But those Tobacco Road stereotypes of the South and rural America are the same disparagements that the Republicans hurled at the Populists a century ago .
Tobacco Road: Dilapidated housing as might be found in the rural American South
All in all, the scene was one of an ethereal Tobacco Road West.
Tobacco Road: A fictional place in the rural American South inhabited by poor and uneducated
tobacco mosaic: A disease of tobacco plants, characterized by mottled leaves, caused by this virus
As is the case with tobacco mosaic, the disease has been successfully transmitted by inoculating healthy plants with juice pressed out of diseased plants.
tobacco mosaic: A particular RNA virus that infects plants, especially tobacco and other members of the family Solanaceae, causing characteristic patterns of mottling and discoloration on the leaves
RNA replaces DNA as the genetic material in many viruses (for example, tobacco mosaic, influenza, polio, certain RNA phages).
tobacco pipe: A small, hand-held device consisting in its simplest form of a bowl and stem; used for inhaling the smoke of burning tobacco
tobacco pipes: plural form of tobacco pipe
tobacco water: A traditional organic insecticide used in domestic gardening, produced by boiling or steeping strong tobacco in water
Tobacco and Firearms Bureau of Alcohol: Agency of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Established in 1972, it enforces and administers laws covering the production, taxation, and distribution of alcohol and tobacco products, as well as laws relating to the use of firearms and explosives. It inspects plants, issues licenses, oversees tax collection on alcohol and tobacco, monitors advertising and labeling practices, and investigates violations. It also investigates the illegal use of firearms and explosives, as well as illicit trafficking in firearms, distilled spirits, and contraband cigarettes
tobacco budworm: The destructive larva of a noctuid moth (Heliothis virescens) that feeds on tobacco plants in the southern United States and cotton plants in Peru
tobacco hornworm: The destructive larva of a hawk moth (Manduca sexta) of the southern United States and the West Indies that feeds on the leaves of tobacco plants. Also called tobacco worm
tobacco hornworm: large green white-striped hawkmoth larva that feeds on tobacco and related plants; similar to tomato hornworm
tobacco industry: an industry that manufactures and sells products containing tobacco
tobacco juice: saliva colored brown by tobacco (snuff or chewing tobacco)
tobacco mildew: fungus causing a downy mildew on growing tobacco
tobacco mosaic: Any of several diseases of tobacco and nightshade caused by the tobacco mosaic virus and characterized by mottled leaves
tobacco mosaic: a plant disease causing discoloration of the leaves of tobacco plants
tobacco mosaic virus: A retrovirus causing mosaic disease in tobacco and some other plants that was a primary focus of study in early plant virology
tobacco mosaic virus: the widely studied plant virus that causes tobacco mosaic; it was the first virus discovered (1892)
tobacco moth: small moth whose larvae feed on tobacco and other dried plant products
tobacco pipe: {i} pipe used for smoking tobacco, pipe
tobacco plant: {i} any of a number of aromatic annual plants having large leaves that are prepared for chewing or smoking
tobacco pouch: a pouch for carrying pipe tobacco
tobacco road: A poverty-stricken rural community
tobacco shop: a shop that sells pipes and pipe tobacco and cigars and cigarettes
tobacco thrips: injurious to growing tobacco and peanuts
chewing tobacco: Tobacco placed between cheek and gum to allow nicotine absorption through internal membranes
tobacco.: tobacky
'Now,' sais I, ' that invention, beautiful and simple as it is, cost me great thought and much tobacky,' said I, lookin' innocent again.
tobacco.: burn
As the prison week ended and the less careful inmates began to run out of burn they went through a peculair begging ritual that I, never one to husband resources either, was quick to learn.
environmental tobacco smoke: Smoke that comes from the burning end of a cigarette and smoke that is exhaled by smokers. Also called ETS or second-hand smoke. Inhaling ETS is called involuntary or passive smoking
British American Tobacco PLC: formerly British-American Tobacco Company Ltd. (1902-76) and B.A.T Industries PLC (1976-98) British conglomerate that is one of the world's largest manufacturers of tobacco products. The company's international headquarters are in London, while its chief American subsidiary, Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, is headquartered in Louisville, Ky. Its acquisitions have included the American Tobacco Company (1994), which represents such cigarette brands as Pall Mall and Lucky Strike; Rothmans International (1999), known for its Dunhill and Rothmans brands; and Canada's largest cigarette company, Imperial Tobacco (2000)
British-American Tobacco Company Ltd: formerly British-American Tobacco Company Ltd. (1902-76) and B.A.T Industries PLC (1976-98) British conglomerate that is one of the world's largest manufacturers of tobacco products. The company's international headquarters are in London, while its chief American subsidiary, Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, is headquartered in Louisville, Ky. Its acquisitions have included the American Tobacco Company (1994), which represents such cigarette brands as Pall Mall and Lucky Strike; Rothmans International (1999), known for its Dunhill and Rothmans brands; and Canada's largest cigarette company, Imperial Tobacco (2000)
British-American Tobacco Company Ltd. 1902-76: formerly British-American Tobacco Company Ltd. (1902-76) and B.A.T Industries PLC (1976-98) British conglomerate that is one of the world's largest manufacturers of tobacco products. The company's international headquarters are in London, while its chief American subsidiary, Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, is headquartered in Louisville, Ky. Its acquisitions have included the American Tobacco Company (1994), which represents such cigarette brands as Pall Mall and Lucky Strike; Rothmans International (1999), known for its Dunhill and Rothmans brands; and Canada's largest cigarette company, Imperial Tobacco (2000)
Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms: branch of the U.S. Treasury that is responsible for enforcing laws regarding the sale use and production of alcohol tobacco and firearms, ATF
Inc. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings: U.S.-based tobacco company. Its origins date to the establishment of Richard Joshua Reynolds's tobacco-plug factory in Winston, N.C., in 1875. The Reynolds Tobacco Co. became a major manufacturer of tobacco products, notably Camel, Winston, and Salem cigarettes. Reynolds began to diversify in the 1960s, and in 1970 adopted the name R.J. Reynolds Industries, Inc. In 1985 R.J. Reynolds Industries acquired Nabisco Brands. The new company, named RJR Nabisco in 1986, was acquired by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) in 1989. It was the largest corporate transaction ($25 billion) of its time. KKR divested its ownership in 1995. In 1999 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company became a subsidiary of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings, Inc. Nabisco was acquired by Philip Morris Cos. Inc. in 2000 and became part of the Philip Morris (renamed Altria Group, Inc.) subsidiary Kraft Foods, Inc
Indian tobacco: A poisonous North American plant (Lobelia inflata) having light blue to white flowers and rounded seedpods enclosed by an inflated persistent calyx
Japan Tobacco Inc.: {i} JT, Japanese company manufacturer of tobacco and pharmaceuticals and foods
Philip Morris tobacco companies: Two of the world's largest tobacco companies, comprising Philip Morris International Inc. and Philip Morris USA Inc., both of which are owned by U.S. holding company Altria Group, Inc. Drawing on the name of Philip Morris, a London tobacconist who opened shop in the mid 1800s, the company was incorporated in New York in 1902 as a British-American venture; ownership shifted to American stockholders in 1919, when the company was renamed Philip Morris & Co. It became a principal maker of cigarettes in the 1930s and '40s, and the popularity of its Marlboro cigarettes grew with its use of cowboy imagery to advertise them in the mid 1950s. The company developed other American cigarette brands such as Parliament, Virginia Slims, and Merit. Overseas ventures in the manufacture and marketing of cigarettes led to the formation of Philip Morris International, which by 1972 had established sales in many parts of the world, including the former Soviet Union. Its global brands include Chesterfield and Lark
bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms: the law enforcement and tax collection agency of the Treasury Department that enforces federal laws concerning alcohol and tobacco products and firearms and explosives and arson
common tobacco: tall erect South American herb with large ovate leaves and terminal clusters of tubular white or pink flowers; cultivated for its leaves
flowering tobacco: South American ornamental perennial having nocturnally fragrant greenish-white flowers
indian tobacco: North American wild lobelia having small blue flowers and inflated capsules formerly used as an antispasmodic
ladies' tobacco: North American perennial propagated by means of runners
roll of tobacco: tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder
tree tobacco: A South American shrub or small tree (Nicotiana glauca) naturalized in the United States and having yellow flowers and thick, rubbery, oval or lance-shaped leaves
tree tobacco: evergreen South American shrub naturalized in United States; occasionally responsible for poisoning livestock
turkish tobacco: a dark, aromatic, small-leaved tobacco of eastern Europe and used in cigarettes
wild tobacco: tobacco plant of South America and Mexico

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tıbäkō

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/təˈbaˌkō/ /təˈbæˌkoʊ/

Etymologie

[ t&-'ba-(")kO ] (noun.) circa 1565. 1588, from Spanish tabaco, in turn either from Arabic طباق (ṭabāq, ṭubāq, “a type of medicinal herb”) (Spanish circa 1410, Arabic dating to 9th century), or from Taino, in sense “a roll of tobacco leaves”Las Casas, 1552 or “a pipe for smoking tobacco”.Oviedo, 1535 The term is thus either an Old World term (of Arabic origin) applied to a New World plant, or a New World word.“” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001

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