Indian tobacco

noun

1

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

2

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

Examples of Indian tobacco in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest smoked wild coyote tobacco (Nicotiana attenuata) and Indian tobacco (Nicotiana quadrivalvis). — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 14 June 2025

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1618, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for Indian tobacco

• archipelago
• duodecimo
• impresario
• pianissimo
• acknow
• aglow
• ago
• airglow
• aloe
• altho
• although
• ammo

Medical Definition

Indian tobacco

noun

1

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

2

: lobelia sense 2