Mexican | (n) a native or inhabitant of Mexico |
Mexican | (adj) of or relating to Mexico or its inhabitants |
Mexican-American | (n) a Mexican (or person of Mexican descent) living in the United States, Syn. Mexicano |
Mexican_bean_beetle | (n) introduced into the United States from Mexico; feeds on the foliage of the bean plant, Syn. Epilachna varivestis, Mexican bean beetle, bean beetle |
Mexican_cypress | (n) tall spreading evergreen found in Mexico having drooping branches; believed to have been introduced into Portugal from Goa, Syn. cedar of Goa, Cupressus lusitanica, Mexican cypress, Portuguese cypress |
Mexican_hairless | (n) any of an old breed of small nearly hairless dogs of Mexico, Syn. Mexican hairless |
Mexican_hat | (n) 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, Syn. Ratibida columnaris, Mexican hat |
Mexican_hyssop | (n) erect perennial of Mexico having rose to crimson flowers, Syn. Agastache mexicana, Mexican hyssop |
Mexican_juniper | (n) small tree of western Texas and mountains of Mexico having spreading branches with drooping branchlets, Syn. drooping juniper, Mexican juniper, Juniperus flaccida |
Mexican_mint | (n) an herb from Oaxaca that has a powerful hallucinogenic effect; the active ingredient is salvinorin, Syn. Salvia divinorum, Mexican mint |
Mexican_monetary_unit | (n) monetary unit in Mexico, Syn. Mexican monetary unit |
Mexican_peso | (n) the basic unit of money in Mexico; equal to 100 centavos, Syn. peso, Mexican peso |
Mexican_pocket_mouse | (n) large pocket mouse of Mexico, Syn. Liomys irroratus, Mexican pocket mouse |
Mexican_poppy | (n) annual herb with prickly stems and large yellow flowers; southern United States to West Indies and Mexico, Syn. Mexican poppy, Argemone mexicana |
Mexican_Revolution | (n) a revolution for agrarian reforms led in northern Mexico by Pancho Villa and in southern Mexico by Emiliano Zapata (1910-1911), Syn. Mexican Revolution |
Mexican_Spanish | (n) the dialect of Spanish spoken in Mexico, Syn. Mexican Spanish |
Mexican_standoff | (n) a situation in which no one can emerge as a clear winner, Syn. Mexican standoff |
Mexican_sunflower | (n) 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, Syn. tithonia, Mexican sunflower |
Mexican_War | (n) 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, Syn. Mexican War |
New_Mexican | (n) a native or resident of New Mexico, Syn. New Mexican |
Acapulco_gold | (n) a particularly potent variety of marijuana, Syn. Mexican green, Acapulco gold |
alabaster | (n) a hard compact kind of calcite, Syn. oriental alabaster, Mexican onyx, onyx marble |
American_water_ouzel | (n) a water ouzel of western North America, Syn. Cinclus mexicanus, American water ouzel |
American_wormseed | (n) rank-smelling tropical American pigweed, Syn. Mexican tea, Spanish tea, wormseed, Chenopodium ambrosioides, American wormseed |
axolotl | (n) larval salamander of mountain lakes of Mexico that usually lives without metamorphosing, Syn. mud puppy, Ambystoma mexicanum |
beaded_lizard | (n) lizard with black and yellowish beadlike scales; of western Mexico, Syn. beaded lizard, Heloderma horridum, Mexican beaded lizard |
big-tree_plum | (n) small tree of southwestern United States having purplish-red fruit sometimes cultivated as an ornamental for its large leaves, Syn. big-tree plum, Prunus mexicana |
black-necked_stilt | (n) stilt of southwestern United States to northern South America having black plumage extending from the head down the back of the neck, Syn. Himantopus mexicanus, black-necked stilt |
capulin | (n) Mexican black cherry, Syn. Mexican black cherry |
fire-on-the-mountain | (n) poinsettia of United States and eastern Mexico; often confused with Euphorbia heterophylla, Syn. Euphorbia cyathophora, Mexican fire plant, painted leaf |
golden_cup | (n) native of Mexican highlands grown for its glossy clear yellow flowers and blue-grey finely dissected foliage, Syn. Mexican tulip poppy, golden cup, Hunnemania fumariifolia |
guano_bat | (n) the common freetail bat of southern United States having short velvety fur; migrates southward for winter, Syn. Tadarida brasiliensis, Mexican freetail bat, guano bat |
hognose_bat | (n) small-eared Mexican bat with a long slender nose, Syn. hognose bat, Choeronycteris mexicana |
house_finch | (n) small finch originally of the western United States and Mexico, Syn. linnet, Carpodacus mexicanus, house finch |
Jerusalem_oak | (n) Eurasian aromatic oak-leaved goosefoot with many yellow-green flowers; naturalized North America, Syn. Mexican tea, Jerusalem oak, Atriplex mexicana, feather geranium, Chenopodium botrys |
jumping_bean | (n) seed of Mexican shrubs of the genus Sebastiana containing the larva of a moth whose movements cause the bean to jerk or tumble, Syn. Mexican jumping bean, jumping bean, jumping seed |
Mexico | (n) a republic in southern North America; became independent from Spain in 1810, Syn. United Mexican States |
Mexico_City | (n) the capital and largest city of Mexico is a political and cultural and commercial and industrial center; one of the world's largest cities, Syn. capital of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexican capital, Ciudad de Mexico |
Montezuma_cypress | (n) cypress of river valleys of Mexican highlands, Syn. Mexican swamp cypress, Montezuma cypress, Taxodium mucronatum |
pinon_pine | (n) a small two-needled or three-needled pinon of Mexico and southern Texas, Syn. Pinus cembroides, pinon pine, Mexican nut pine |
poinsettia | (n) tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers, Syn. Mexican flameleaf, painted leaf, Christmas star, Christmas flower, Euphorbia pulcherrima, lobster plant |
R-2 | (n) street names for flunitrazepan, Syn. forget me drug, roofy, roach, circle, rope, Mexican valium, rophy |
tanglebush | (n) spiny branching deciduous shrub of southwestern United States having clusters of insignificant yellow-white flowers appearing before leaves followed by attractive black berrylike fruits, Syn. Forestiera neomexicana, desert olive |
tomatillo | (n) annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes, Syn. Physalis ixocarpa, jamberry, Mexican husk tomato |
tomatillo | (n) small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk, Syn. Mexican husk tomato, husk tomato |
vermillion_flycatcher | (n) tropical American flycatcher found as far north as southern Texas and Arizona; adult male has bright scarlet and black plumage, Syn. vermillion flycatcher, Pyrocephalus rubinus mexicanus, firebird |