Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The Paraguay tea, or mate. See mate. Abbreviated from yerba de mate or yerba-mate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) An herb; a plant.
  • noun A kind of buckthorn (Rhamnus Californica).
  • noun A plant (Anemopsis Californica) with a pungent, aromatic rootstock, used medicinally by the Mexicans and the Indians.
  • noun A low California undershrub (Frankenia grandifolia).

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Ilex paraguaiensis, a species of holly native to southern South America; or the dried leaves and twigs of this plant

Etymologies

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From yerba maté

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