mexican hat

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   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

   SynonymsRatibida columnaris

   Broaderconeflower

Questions about mexican hat

What does mexican hat mean?

mexican hat means "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".

What is another word for mexican hat?

Close synonyms include Ratibida columnaris. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mexican hat a common word?

mexican hat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.