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nicotiana

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Noun — A garden plant of the tobacco family, grown for decoration.

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Etymology

Nicotiana is a learned borrowing from the taxonomic name Nicotiāna, formed from (Jean) Nicot (the French ambassador to Portugal, who sent seeds back to France in 1561) plus -iāna (an adjective-forming suffix, the feminine of -iānus).

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