Mexican tea
English
Etymology
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
- 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
- (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
- Mexican tea at OneLook Dictionary Search
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