Crossword clues for mexican
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mexican \Mex"i*can\, prop. a. Of or pertaining to Mexico or its people. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Mexico.
Mexican poppy prop. n. (Bot.), a tropical American herb of the Poppy family ( Argemone Mexicana) with much the look of a thistle, but having large yellow or white blossoms.
Mexican tea prop. n. (Bot.), an aromatic kind of pigweed from tropical America ( Chenopodium ambrosioides).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600 (n.); by 1640s (adj.), from Mexico + -an.
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Mexican may refer to:
- Related to, from, or connected to Mexico, a country in North America
- Related to the capital Mexico City
- Related to the State of Mexico
- Mexican people, inhabitants of the country Mexico and their descendants
- Culture of Mexico
- Mexica, ancient indigenous people of the Valley of Mexico
- Nahuatl, language of the Nahua people (including the Mexica)
- USS Mexican (ID-1655), United States Navy ship
- The Mexican, 2001 film starring Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts
- The Mexican (1955 film), 1955 Soviet film by Vladimir Kaplunovsky based on the Jack London story, starring Georgy Vitsin
- "The Mexican" (song), by the band Babe Ruth
- "The Mexican" (short story), by Jack London
- Mexican cuisine
- Tex-Mex, commonly incorrectly called Mexican
Usage examples of "mexican".
Better, they finally say after I have thrown up my hands, to ignore them - or in extremis hire a sharp Mexican abogado who knows the ropes.
Our aces are scheduled to lunch with three of their Mexican counterparts.
America: Aguaruna, Arawak, Blackfoot, Cherokee, Iroquois, Lengua, Mataco, Maya, Mexican and Yahgan.
It ran from the gold mines down near the Mexican border beginning at Lukeville up through Gunsight, to Ajo, through Gila Bend, and finally into Buckeye, where it linked up with the railroad that ran east and west out of Phoenix.
Greeks, Syrians, Aztec, Maya, Mexican Indians, Greenland Eskimos, and tribes of western Brazil and the Indian Ocean Andaman Islands, to name a few.
It hardly seemed likely a bunch of Anglo outlaws would be having Mexican frijoles for supper.
For while Anglo cowhands preferred to fall clear of a cart-wheeling pony when things went wrong, the Mexican vaquero was inclined to be more fatalistic about the possible future, and preferred his ass comfortable in the here and now.
Those few Mexicans or Anglos who knew anything at all about the secretive desert dwellers left them alone for much the same reason.
Sleepy Lagoon murder case, and the efforts of Anglos like Carey McWilliams and Alice Greenfield to champion Mexican causes.
The account also did not raise other issues such as whether Mexicans committed proportionally more violent crimes against Anglos than Anglos against Mexicans.
Henry Garrett became the first Anglo in Centennial to discover that the Mexicans had their own sweet, stable patterns of society, and that in some strange way they tended to find a happiness with nature that the Anglos missed.
She learned about stamp mills and the more primitive arrastra, used by the Mexicans and South Americans to crush gold-bearing rock.
Mexican peasants, with some speculation as to the possible bad effects which I could more or less follow.
I was standing in a short hallway, but the kitchen was just around the corner, a spacious pale yellow room with a backsplash of blue and white Mexican tile.
Exquisite Balinese and Malays, Mexican Indians with fierce innocent faces and bright red gums.