mexican : Idioms & Phrases

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mexican beaded lizard

  • noun lizard with black and yellowish beadlike scales; of western Mexico
    beaded lizard; Heloderma horridum.
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mexican bean beetle

  • noun introduced into the United States from Mexico; feeds on the foliage of the bean plant
    Epilachna varivestis; bean beetle.
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mexican black cherry

  • noun Mexican black cherry
    capulin.
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mexican capital

  • noun the capital and largest city of Mexico is a political and cultural and commercial and industrial center; one of the world's largest cities
    Mexico City; capital of Mexico; Ciudad de Mexico.
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mexican cypress

  • noun tall spreading evergreen found in Mexico having drooping branches; believed to have been introduced into Portugal from Goa
    cedar of Goa; Cupressus lusitanica; Portuguese cypress.
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mexican fire plant

  • noun poinsettia of United States and eastern Mexico; often confused with Euphorbia heterophylla
    painted leaf; fire-on-the-mountain; Euphorbia cyathophora.
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mexican flameleaf

  • noun tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers
    lobster plant; Euphorbia pulcherrima; painted leaf; Christmas star; poinsettia; Christmas flower.
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mexican freetail bat

  • noun the common freetail bat of southern United States having short velvety fur; migrates southward for winter
    guano bat; Tadarida brasiliensis.
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mexican green

  • noun a particularly potent variety of marijuana
    Acapulco gold.
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mexican hairless

  • noun any of an old breed of small nearly hairless dogs of Mexico
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mexican hat

  • noun coneflower with flower heads resembling a Mexican hat with a tall red-brown disk and drooping yellow or yellow and red-brown rays; grows in the great plains along base of Rocky Mountains
    Ratibida columnaris.
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mexican husk tomato

  • noun annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes
    jamberry; Physalis ixocarpa; tomatillo.
  • noun small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk
    husk tomato; tomatillo.
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mexican hyssop

  • noun erect perennial of Mexico having rose to crimson flowers
    Agastache mexicana.
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mexican jumping bean

  • noun seed of Mexican shrubs of the genus Sebastiana containing the larva of a moth whose movements cause the bean to jerk or tumble
    jumping seed; jumping bean.
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mexican juniper

  • noun small tree of western Texas and mountains of Mexico having spreading branches with drooping branchlets
    drooping juniper; Juniperus flaccida.
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mexican mint

  • noun an herb from Oaxaca that has a powerful hallucinogenic effect; the active ingredient is salvinorin
    Salvia divinorum.
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mexican monetary unit

  • noun monetary unit in Mexico
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mexican nut pine

  • noun a small two-needled or three-needled pinon of Mexico and southern Texas
    pinon pine; Pinus cembroides.
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mexican onyx

  • noun a hard compact kind of calcite
    oriental alabaster; alabaster; onyx marble.
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mexican peso

  • noun the basic unit of money in Mexico; equal to 100 centavos
    peso.
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mexican pocket mouse

  • noun large pocket mouse of Mexico
    Liomys irroratus.
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Mexican poppy

  • noun annual herb with prickly stems and large yellow flowers; southern United States to West Indies and Mexico
    Argemone mexicana.
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  • (Bot.), a tropical American herb of the Poppy family (Argemone Mexicana) with much the look of a thistle, but having large yellow or white blossoms.
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mexican revolution

  • noun a revolution for agrarian reforms led in northern Mexico by Pancho Villa and in southern Mexico by Emiliano Zapata (1910-1911)
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mexican spanish

  • noun the dialect of Spanish spoken in Mexico
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mexican standoff

  • noun a situation in which no one can emerge as a clear winner
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mexican sunflower

  • noun any plant of the genus Tithonia; tall coarse herbs or shrubs of Mexico to Panama having large flower heads resembling sunflowers with yellow disc florets and golden-yellow to orange-scarlet rays
    tithonia.
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mexican swamp cypress

  • noun cypress of river valleys of Mexican highlands
    Taxodium mucronatum; Montezuma cypress.
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Mexican tea

  • noun Eurasian aromatic oak-leaved goosefoot with many yellow-green flowers; naturalized North America
    Jerusalem oak; feather geranium; Chenopodium botrys; Atriplex mexicana.
  • noun rank-smelling tropical American pigweed
    Spanish tea; Chenopodium ambrosioides; American wormseed; wormseed.
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  • (Bot.), an aromatic kind of pigweed from tropical America (Chenopodium ambrosioides).
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mexican tulip poppy

  • noun native of Mexican highlands grown for its glossy clear yellow flowers and blue-grey finely dissected foliage
    Hunnemania fumariifolia; golden cup.
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mexican valium

  • noun street names for flunitrazepan
    R-2; roofy; forget me drug; rope; rophy; roach; circle.
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mexican war

  • noun after disputes over Texas lands that were settled by Mexicans the United States declared war on Mexico in 1846 and by treaty in 1848 took Texas and California and Arizona and New Mexico and Nevada and Utah and part of Colorado and paid Mexico $15,000,000
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mexican-american

  • noun a Mexican (or person of Mexican descent) living in the United States
    Mexicano.
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new mexican

  • noun a native or resident of New Mexico
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united mexican states

  • noun a republic in southern North America; became independent from Spain in 1810
    Mexico.
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