Virginia tobacco

noun

1

: tobacco grown in colonial North America and shipped from Virginia ports

2

a

: tobacco grown east of the Appalachian mountains and flue-cured

b

: any of various fire-cured, sun-cured, or air-cured tobaccos of the eastern U.S.

—distinguished from burley

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