·noun A kind of tobacco for smoking, made of the dried leaves, coarsely broken;
— so called from the rush baskets in which it is packed in South America.
cānaster, μιξοπόλιος, half-gray , grizzled , Gloss. Gr. Lat. [canus]. ...
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