1
: tobacco grown in colonial North America and shipped from Virginia ports
2
a
: tobacco grown east of the Appalachian mountains and flue-cured
b
: any of various fire-cured, sun-cured, or air-cured tobaccos of the eastern U.S.
—distinguished from burley
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Merriam-Webster unabridged
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