Mexican tea

American  

noun

1. a goosefoot, Chenopodium ambrosioides, having strong-smelling leaves sometimes used medicinally or as flavoring.

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Etymology

Origin of Mexican tea

First recorded in 1820–30

Example Sentences

There'd be hampers full of kimonos and Mexican tea sets, we'd put on plays.

From The Guardian

Spikes dense, leafy Mexican Tea, Chenopodium ambrosioides. 14b.

From Project Gutenberg

All day she sat in the kitchen and worked buttonholes, subsisting on bread and water and Mexican Tea.

From Project Gutenberg

But Felix flatly refused to take liver pills; Mexican Tea he would drink, but liver pills he would not take, in spite of his own suffering and Aunt Janet's commands and entreaties.

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"I've saved many a doctor's bill in my family by using Mexican Tea."

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