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nicotiana
Nicotiana (noun) means a garden plant of the tobacco family, grown for decoration.
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A garden plant of the tobacco family, grown for decoration.
"But strong-stemmed bushy plants like salvias, coneflowers, cosmos, marigolds, nicotianas and zinnias should be cut back only to the next strong branch or pair of branches."
— Leslie Land, Garden Q.&A (2007)
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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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"nicotiana" (noun) means a garden plant of the tobacco family, grown for decoration.
