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Definition of Mexican hat
1. Noun. 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.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mexican Hat
Literary usage of Mexican hat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Environmental Management 1994: Progress and Plans of the Environmental edited by Tom Grumbly (2003)
"At sites in Falls City, Texas; Mexican hat, Utah; and Ambrosia Lake, New Mexico;
surface remedial activities are ongoing with completion scheduled in 1995. ..."
2. The Tramp at Home by Lee Meriwether (1889)
"A Mexican hat is worth all the way from twenty to fifty dollars, and the duty is
fifty per cent.; the smuggler, therefore, lost a good round sum by being; ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"... wild-looking faces ; the chance horseman who passes with his serape of many
colors, his high, ornamental saddle, Mexican hat, silver stirrups, ..."
4. Western Field by Olympic Club (San Francisco, Calif.), California Game and Fish Protective Association (1907)
"9 25-'05 Received Mexican hat from you 2 months ago and took it with me this
summer up to a and tt gave great satisfaction. AA LEK THE FRANCIS E. LESTER ..."
5. Tales of the Southern Border by Charles Wilkins Webber (1853)
"Most of them wore the "sombrero," or Mexican hat, and the many-hued "se- rape,"
thrown carelessly over tte characteristic suit of " foxed" cloth, ..."
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