Mexican tea

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Mexican tea

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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.

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uncountable A leafless desert shrub of the US Southwest in the genus Ephedra, usually Ephedra trifurca, used to make an herbal tea.
Similar: Brigham tea, cowboy tea, desert tea, ephedra, jointfir, Mormon tea, popotillo, squaw tea, teamster tea, drug wormseed, epazote, herba sancti Mariae
uncountable Dysphania ambrosioides, formerly Chenopodium ambrosioides

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@misc{mexican_tea_2026,
  title = {Mexican tea},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mexican%20tea},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}