cigar
n.
large cylindrical roll of dried tobacco (for smoking)
Cigar
A cigar is a tightly rolled bundle of dried and fermented
tobacco, one end of which is
ignited so that its
smoke may be drawn into the smoker's mouth through the other end. Most cigar smokers do not inhale the smoke.The
English cigar comes from the
Spanish cigarro, which in turn derives from the
Mayan word for tobacco, siyar; see the entry for cigarro at the
Spanish Royal Academy's online dictionary
[1].Cigar tobacco is grown in significant quantities in
Brazil,
Cameroon,
Cuba,
Dominican Republic,
Honduras,
Indonesia,
Mexico,
Nicaragua,
the Philippines, and the
United States,
Havana cigars from Cuba being particularly famous.
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cigar
Noun
1. a roll of tobacco for smoking
(hypernym) roll of tobacco, smoke
(hyponym) cheroot
(part-meronym) cigar butt
Cigar
(n.)
A small roll of tobacco, used for smoking.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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