Mexican tea n 1: Eurasian aromatic oak-leaved goosefoot with many yellow- green flowers; naturalized North America [syn: {Jerusalem oak}, {feather geranium}, {Mexican tea}, {Chenopodium botrys}, {Atriplex mexicana}] 2: rank-smelling tropical American pigweed [syn: {American wormseed}, {Mexican tea}, {Spanish tea}, {wormseed}, {Chenopodium ambrosioides}]
Mexican \Mex"i*can\, prop. a. Of or pertaining to Mexico or its people. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Mexico. [1913 Webster] {Mexican poppy} prop. n. (Bot.), a tropical American herb of the Poppy family ({Argemone Mexicana}) with much the look of a thistle, but having large yellow or white blossoms. {Mexican tea} prop. n. (Bot.), an aromatic kind of pigweed from tropical America ({Chenopodium ambrosioides}). [1913 Webster]