Tobacco vs. Tabacco — What's the Difference?

Tobacco is the common name of several plants in the Nicotiana genus and the Solanaceae (nightshade) family, and the general term for any product prepared from the cured leaves of the tobacco plant. More than 70 species of tobacco are known, but the chief commercial crop is N. tabacum.

Tabacco is a surname.

The tropical American plant Nicotiana tabacum of the nightshade family, widely cultivated for its leaves, which are used primarily for smoking.

Obsolete form of tobacco

The leaves of this plant, dried and processed chiefly for use in cigarettes, cigars, or snuff or for smoking in pipes.

Tobacco.

Any of various other plants of the genus Nicotiana.

Products made from these plants.

The habit of smoking tobacco

(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.

(countable) A variety of tobacco.

(intransitive) To indulge in tobacco; to smoke.

(transitive) To treat with tobacco.

An American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of the Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an acrid taste.

The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing, etc., by being dried, cured, and manufactured in various ways.

Leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion

Aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubs