leaf tobacco
Refers to tobacco leaves, typically before processing into cigarettes or other products. Common in agricultural and commercial contexts.
Leaf tobacco cultivation is thriving in this region.
We dry the leaf tobacco before shipping it.
Common mixed-kana spelling; the katakana portion reflects the loanword タバコ.
Hiragana variant; less common but still seen.
Full-kanji spelling; 煙草 is a jukujikun reading for タバコ, but this form is now rare.
Compound of 葉 (は, 'leaf') and タバコ ('tobacco'), a loanword from Portuguese 'tabaco'.