MEXICAN HAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mexican hat mean? 

• MEXICAN HAT (noun)
  The noun MEXICAN HAT has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: MEXICAN HAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEXICAN HAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Mexican hat; Ratibida columnaris

Hypernyms ("Mexican hat" is a kind of...):

coneflower (a wildflower of the genus Ratibida)