A color or group symbol used with another symbol to form the third factor of a grademark to denote a particular side or characteristic of the tobacco. As applied to flue-cured tobacco, the combination symbols are XL - lug side, PO - oxidized primings, XO - oxidized lugs or cutters, BO - oxidized leaf or smoking leaf, GL - thin-bodied nondescript, GF - medium-bodied nondescript, LP - lemon (primings side), and FP - orange (primings side), KK-excessively scorched.
[48 FR 29671, June 28, 1983, as amended at 51 FR 25027, July 10, 1986]