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MEXICAN TEA

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rank-smelling tropical American pigweed

Synonyms:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

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