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Indian tobacco

• 1a a poisonous plant, Lobelia inflata, used as tobacco.

• 1b a plant, Nicotiana attentuata, of the western mountain region, used with other plants in preparing smoking mixtures.

• 2 any of several mixtures prepared by Indians for smoking, especially kinnikinik (def. 1).

  See also: kinnikinik (def. 1)