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BACCY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion
Synonyms:
baccy; tobacco
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("baccy" is a kind of...):
drug of abuse; street drug (a drug that is taken for nonmedicinal reasons (usually for mind-altering effects); drug abuse can lead to physical and mental damage and (with some substances) dependence and addiction)
plant product (a product made from plant material)
Meronyms (substance of "baccy"):
common tobacco; Nicotiana tabacum (tall erect South American herb with large ovate leaves and terminal clusters of tubular white or pink flowers; cultivated for its leaves)
nicotine (an alkaloid poison that occurs in tobacco; used in medicine and as an insecticide)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "baccy"):
filler (the tobacco used to form the core of a cigar)
roll of tobacco; smoke (tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder)
smoking mixture (a blend of tobaccos to be smoked in a pipe)
snuff (finely powdered tobacco for sniffing up the nose)
shag (a strong coarse tobacco that has been shredded)
Turkish tobacco (a dark aromatic tobacco of eastern Europe that is used in cigarettes)
