MEXICAN HAT

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Coneflower with flower heads resembling a Mexican hat with a tall red-brown disk and drooping yellow or yellow and red-brown rays; grows in the great plains along base of Rocky Mountains

Synonyms:

Mexican hat; Ratibida columnaris

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

coneflower (a wildflower of the genus Ratibida)

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