Definition of "nicotiana" [nicotiana]

• Any of various flowering annual or perennial herbs of the genus Nicotiana, native to the Americas and including the tobacco plant and ornamental species with fragrant flowers. (noun)

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• "The path wound through the garden flanked here and there by frothy pink azaleas and the fragrant white stars of nicotiana."
• "I am very excited about the nicotiana and read in a blog somewhere, sorry cannot remember which one, that they like extra feeding as babies."
• "The nicotiana is one of the highlights of the gravel, never showing up in the beds even if I save seed and sow it there."