tobaccos

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of tobacco.

   Cuban and Turkish tobaccos each bring a distinct aroma to a blend.

   The auction house graded the year's tobaccos by leaf color and texture.

   Note

   The plural belongs to the countable use, where tobacco means a variety rather than the leaf in bulk. The plant and the harvested leaf are mass nouns (a field of tobacco, a pouch of tobacco), so tobaccos signals kinds, as in Cuban and Turkish tobaccos. For sheer quantity, stay with the uncountable form. The same spelling also serves the verb's present tense.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present indicative of tobacco.

   Note

   Two quite different verbs share this form. One is intransitive and takes no object: someone who tobaccos after dinner simply smokes. The other is transitive, and its object is whatever is being treated with tobacco, such as a sheep wash dosed against ticks. The quickest way to tell them apart is to look for an object after the verb.

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