Definition of Mexican hat

1. 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.

Exact synonyms: Ratibida Columnaris
Generic synonyms: Coneflower

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mexican Hat

Mexican bean beetle
Mexican black cherry
Mexican breakfast
Mexican breakfasts
Mexican capital
Mexican cypress
Mexican duck
Mexican ducks
Mexican fire plant
Mexican flameleaf
Mexican freetail bat
Mexican green
Mexican hairless
Mexican hairlesses
Mexican hand tree
Mexican hat (current term)
Mexican hat cell
Mexican hat corpuscle
Mexican husk tomato
Mexican hyssop
Mexican jumping bean
Mexican jumping beans
Mexican juniper
Mexican mint
Mexican monetary unit
Mexican nut pine
Mexican onyx
Mexican overdrive
Mexican peso
Mexican plateau

Literary usage of Mexican hat

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Environmental Management 1994: Progress and Plans of the Environmental edited by Tom Grumbly (2003)
"At sites in Falls City, Texas; Mexican hat, Utah; and Ambrosia Lake, New Mexico; surface remedial activities are ongoing with completion scheduled in 1995. ..."

2. The Tramp at Home by Lee Meriwether (1889)
"A Mexican hat is worth all the way from twenty to fifty dollars, and the duty is fifty per cent.; the smuggler, therefore, lost a good round sum by being; ..."

3. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"... wild-looking faces ; the chance horseman who passes with his serape of many colors, his high, ornamental saddle, Mexican hat, silver stirrups, ..."

4. Western Field by Olympic Club (San Francisco, Calif.), California Game and Fish Protective Association (1907)
"9 25-'05 Received Mexican hat from you 2 months ago and took it with me this summer up to a and tt gave great satisfaction. AA LEK THE FRANCIS E. LESTER ..."

5. Tales of the Southern Border by Charles Wilkins Webber (1853)
"Most of them wore the "sombrero," or Mexican hat, and the many-hued "se- rape," thrown carelessly over tte characteristic suit of " foxed" cloth, ..."

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