yerba mate
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of yerba mate
First recorded in 1835–40; from South American Spanish: yerba “herb” + mate 3
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He’s a partial owner of the canned yerba mate brand Mateina, but he “loves it without bias.”
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
Finally, ian kicks off his sneakers, sits cross-legged on an office chair, cracks a can of yerba mate and presses play.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025
Martínez said she enjoyed trying Argentine specialties including empanadas and yerba mate and also came away with a deep fascination for Wilson’s phalaropes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025
Over yerba mate and torta fritas, his mother, Ederlinda Miguelina Yelón, passed along the knowledge she had stored in Chaná, a throaty language spoken by barely moving the lips or tongue.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2024
Asked what he required at our hands the beggar replied that he wanted yerba mate, sugar, bread, and some hard biscuits, also cut tobacco and paper for cigarettes and some leaf tobacco for cigars.
From Far Away and Long Ago by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
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