mexican

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: Mex=i=can

CIDE DICTIONARY

mexican, prop. a. 

 Of or pertaining to Mexico or its people.  [1913 Webster]

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).

OXFORD DICTIONARY

mexican, n. & adj.
--n.
1 a a native or national of Mexico in Central America. b a person of Mexican descent.
2 a language spoken in Mexico, esp. Nahuatl.
--adj.
1 of or relating to Mexico or its people.
2 of Mexican descent.

Etymology

Sp. mexicano