Virginia tobacco
noun
Definition of Virginia tobacco
1 : tobacco grown in colonial North America and shipped from Virginia ports
2a : 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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