Mexican tea
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
One of a number of common names based on types of people known to live in the desert, with tea referring to the herbal drink brewed from the plant.
Noun[edit]
- A leafless desert shrub of the US Southwest in the genus Ephedra, usually Ephedra trifurca, used to make an herbal tea
- Dysphania ambrosioides, formerly Chenopodium ambrosioides
Synonyms[edit]
- (shrub of genus Ephedra): Brigham tea, cowboy tea, desert tea, ephedra, jointfir, Mormon tea, popotillo, squaw tea, teamster tea
- (Dysphania ambrosoides): wormseed, Jesuit's tea, payqu (paico), epazote, herba sancti Mariae, Jerusalem oak, drug wormseed
References[edit]
Mexican tea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “Mexican tea”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
