popotillo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish popotillo from popote (“straw”) + -illo (“little”).

Noun

popotillo (uncountable)

1. A leafless desert shrub of the US Southwest in the genus Ephedra, used to make an herbal tea.

Synonyms

• Brigham tea
• cowboy tea
• desert tea
• ephedra
• jointfir
• Mexican tea
• Mormon tea
• squaw tea
• teamster tea

 

References

• Ephedra (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “popotillo”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.