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Tobacco vs Nicotianine - What's the difference?

tobacco | nicotianine |

As nouns the difference between tobacco and nicotianine

is that tobacco is any plant of the genus Nicotiana while nicotianine is a white waxy substance with a hot, bitter taste, extracted from tobacco leaves.

tobacco

Noun

  • (uncountable) Any plant of the genus Nicotiana .
  • (uncountable) Leaves of Nicotiana tabacum and some other species cultivated and harvested to make cigarettes, cigars, snuff, for smoking in pipes or for chewing.
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  • (countable) A variety of tobacco.
  • See also

    * baccy, backy * *

    References

    nicotianine

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (organic compound) A white waxy substance with a hot, bitter taste, extracted from tobacco leaves.
  • Synonyms

    * tobacco camphor (Webster 1913)