WILD TOBACCO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wild tobacco mean? 

• WILD TOBACCO (noun)
  The noun WILD TOBACCO has 1 sense:

1. tobacco plant of South America and Mexico

  Familiarity information: WILD TOBACCO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WILD TOBACCO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tobacco plant of South America and Mexico

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Indian tobacco; Nicotiana rustica; wild tobacco

Hypernyms ("wild tobacco" is a kind of...):

tobacco; tobacco plant (aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubs)

 Context examples 

Bioinformatics expert identified a subset of one-to-one corresponding genes (single-copy orthologs) in the liverwort and wild tobacco and analysed their level of activity during the infection.

(Ancient defence strategy continues to protect plants from pathogens, University of Cambridge)

Researchers from the Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge compared how two distantly related plants – a common liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha) and a flowering plant, wild tobacco (Nicotiana benthamiana) – defend themselves against an aggressive pathogen (Phytophthora palmivora).

(Ancient defence strategy continues to protect plants from pathogens, University of Cambridge)