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2 words match “NICOTIANINE”

NICOTIANINE n.
A white waxy substance having a hot, bitter taste, extracted from tobacco leaves and called also tobacco camphor.
TOBACCO n.
us ways. Tobacco box (Zoöl.), the common American skate. -- Tobacco camphor. (Chem.) See Nicotianine. -- Tobacco man, a tobacconist. [R.] -- Tobacco pipe. (a) A pipe used for smoking, made of baked clay, wood, or other material. (b) (Bot.) Same as Indian pipe, under Indian. -- Tobacco-pipe clay (Min.), a species of…