tobacco

«tobacco» in Mova's school dictionary: a plant whose dried leaves are smoked in cigarettes… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (tobacco — uncountable; tobaccos for kinds)

meaning for a pupil

1) Tobacco is a plant whose dried leaves are smoked in cigarettes, cigars and pipes, or chewed. tree →

2) Tobacco is also the dried leaves themselves, prepared for smoking. tree →

sense in the lessons

In health and safety lessons tobacco is harmful: it contains nicotine, which is addictive, and smoking causes lung disease and cancer. It is illegal to sell to children. In history, tobacco was grown on big farms and traded. Phrases: tobacco smoke, tobacco plant, chewing tobacco.

examples

• Tobacco is very bad for your health. tree →
• The shop is not allowed to sell tobacco to children. tree →
• Grandad gave up tobacco and feels much better. tree →
• The pipe smelled of tobacco. tree →
• Tobacco plants have big green leaves. tree →
• Tobacco smoke can harm people nearby too. tree →

note

Uncountable. Spelled with one «b» and double «c»: to-bac-co. Myth: «a few cigarettes don't hurt» — any smoking harms health. Second-hand smoke hurts others.

In the corpora

• In Europa Universalis 5 colonies send sugar and tobacco as trade goods and the game ends in 1836.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «tobacco» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.