MEXICAN TEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mexican tea mean? 

• MEXICAN TEA (noun)
  The noun MEXICAN TEA has 2 senses:

1. Eurasian aromatic oak-leaved goosefoot with many yellow-green flowers; naturalized North America

2. rank-smelling tropical American pigweed

  Familiarity information: MEXICAN TEA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEXICAN TEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eurasian aromatic oak-leaved goosefoot with many yellow-green flowers; naturalized North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Atriplex mexicana; Chenopodium botrys; feather geranium; Jerusalem oak; Mexican tea

Hypernyms ("Mexican tea" is a kind of...):

goosefoot (any of various weeds of the genus Chenopodium having small greenish flowers)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Rank-smelling tropical American pigweed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

American wormseed; Chenopodium ambrosioides; Mexican tea; Spanish tea; wormseed

Hypernyms ("Mexican tea" is a kind of...):

goosefoot (any of various weeds of the genus Chenopodium having small greenish flowers)