Indian tobacco

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Indian tobacco

A poisonous North American plant (Lobelia inflata) having light blue to white flowers and rounded seedpods enclosed by an inflated persistent calyx.

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Indian tobacco

(Plants) a poisonous North American campanulaceous plant, Lobelia inflata, with small pale blue flowers and rounded inflated seed capsules

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In′dian tobac`co

a North American plant, Lobelia inflata, lobelia family, with small blue flowers and inflated capsules.

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Noun	1.	Indian tobacco - tobacco plant of South America and Mexico Nicotiana rustica, wild tobacco tobacco plant, tobacco - aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubs
	2.	Indian tobacco - North American wild lobelia having small blue flowers and inflated capsules formerly used as an antispasmodic bladderpod, Lobelia inflata lobelia - any plant or flower of the genus Lobelia

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