| Mexican Revolution | a revolution for agrarian reforms led in northern Mexico by Pancho Villa and in southern Mexico by Emiliano Zapata (-) |
| Mexican War | after disputes over Texas lands that were settled by Mexicans the United States declared war on Mexico in and by treaty in took Texas and California and Arizona and New Mexico and Nevada and Utah and part of Colorado and paid Mexico $,, |
beaded lizard
Mexican beaded lizard
Heloderma horridum | lizard with black and yellowish beadlike scales, of western Mexico |
| Mexican hairless | any of an old breed of small nearly hairless dogs of Mexico |
guano bat
Mexican freetail bat
Tadarida brasiliensis | the common freetail bat of southern United States having short velvety fur, migrates southward for winter |
Mexican bean beetle
bean beetle
Epilachna varivestis | introduced into the United States from Mexico, feeds on the foliage of the bean plant |
Mexican pocket mouse
Liomys irroratus | large pocket mouse of Mexico |
Acapulco gold
Mexican green | a particularly potent variety of marijuana |
R-
Mexican valium
rophy
rope roofy
roach forget me drug
circle | street names for flunitrazepan |
| Mexican Spanish | the dialect of Spanish spoken in Mexico |
tomatillo
husk tomato
Mexican husk tomato | small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk |
capulin
Mexican black cherry | Mexican black cherry |
Mexico
United Mexican States
| a republic in southern North America, became independent from Spain in |
Mexico City
Ciudad de Mexico
Mexican capital
capital of Mexico | the capital and largest city of Mexico is a political and cultural and commercial and industrial center, one of the world's largest cities |
| Mexican | a native or inhabitant of Mexico |
Mexican-American
Mexicano | a Mexican (or person of Mexican descent) living in the United States |
| New Mexican | a native or resident of New Mexico |
pinon pine
Mexican nut pine
Pinus cembroides | a small two-needled or three-needled pinon of Mexico and southern Texas |
Mexican cypress
cedar of Goa
Portuguese cypress
Cupressus lusitanica | tall spreading evergreen found in Mexico having drooping branches, believed to have been introduced into Portugal from Goa |
Mexican juniper
drooping juniper
Juniperus flaccida | small tree of western Texas and mountains of Mexico having spreading branches with drooping branchlets |
Montezuma cypress
Mexican swamp cypress
Taxodium mucronatum | cypress of river valleys of Mexican highlands |
American wormseed
Mexican tea Spanish tea
wormseed
Chenopodium ambrosioides | rank-smelling tropical American pigweed |
Jerusalem oak
feather geranium
Mexican tea Chenopodium botrys
Atriplex mexicana | Eurasian aromatic oak-leaved goosefoot with many yellow-green flowers, naturalized North America |
Mexican poppy
Argemone mexicana | annual herb with prickly stems and large yellow flowers, southern United States to West Indies and Mexico |
golden cup
Mexican tulip poppy
Hunnemania fumariifolia | native of Mexican highlands grown for its glossy clear yellow flowers and blue-grey finely dissected foliage |
Mexican hat
Ratibida columnaris | 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 |
Mexican sunflower
tithonia | 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 |
Mexican hyssop
Agastache mexicana | erect perennial of Mexico having rose to crimson flowers |
Mexican mint
Salvia divinorum | an herb from Oaxaca that has a powerful hallucinogenic effect, the active ingredient is salvinorin |
tomatillo jamberry Mexican husk tomato
Physalis ixocarpa | annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes |
poinsettia
Christmas star
Christmas flower
lobster plant
Mexican flameleaf
painted leaf Euphorbia pulcherrima | tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers |
fire-on-the-mountain
painted leaf Mexican fire plant
Euphorbia cyathophora | poinsettia of United States and eastern Mexico, often confused with Euphorbia heterophylla |
jumping bean
jumping seed
Mexican jumping bean | seed of Mexican shrubs of the genus Sebastiana containing the larva of a moth whose movements cause the bean to jerk or tumble |
| Mexican monetary unit | monetary unit in Mexico |
Mexican peso
peso | the basic unit of money in Mexico, equal to centavos |
| Mexican standoff | a situation in which no one can emerge as a clear winner |
alabaster oriental alabaster
onyx marble
Mexican onyx | a hard compact kind of calcite |
| Mexican | of or relating to Mexico or its inhabitants, Mexican food is hot |