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Definition of Mexican tea
1. Noun. Eurasian aromatic oak-leaved goosefoot with many yellow-green flowers; naturalized North America.
Generic synonyms: Goosefoot
2. Noun. Rank-smelling tropical American pigweed.
Generic synonyms: Goosefoot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mexican Tea
Literary usage of Mexican tea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Indiana Weed Book by Willis Stanley Blatchley (1912)
"CHENOPODIUM AMBROSIOIDES L. mexican tea. American Wormseed. (AI 2. ... The essential
oils from the seeds of both this and the mexican tea are used as an ..."
2. A Manual of Weeds: With Descriptions of All the Most Pernicious and by Ada Eljiva Georgia (1914)
"mexican tea (Cheno- podium ambrosioides). X J. in latitudes where the ground does
not freeze in winter; also, it is a larger, more strongly-scented plant, ..."
3. C.E. Hobbs' Botanical Hand-book: Of Common Local, English, Botanical and by Charles E. Hobbs (1876)
"... Arabian frankincense, Black cohosh, tt tt Rattlesnake fern, Moonwort, Rattlesnake
fern, mexican tea, tt tt Oak of Jerusalem, mexican tea, Madeira vine, ..."