Indian tobacco

noun

Definition of INDIAN TOBACCO

: a poisonous North American annual lobelia (Lobelia inflata) with small blue or white flowers

: a wild tobacco (Nicotiana bigelovii syn. North quadrivalvis) found in dry valleys from southern California to southern Oregon

circa 1618

Medical Dictionary

noun

: an American wild lobelia (Lobelia inflata) with small blue flowers that is the source of the drug lobelia

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