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maté (tā′, ma-)

noun

  1. a beverage made from the dried leaves of a South American evergreen tree (Ilex paraguariensis) of the holly family
  2. this tree
  3. the dried leaves of this tree

Etymology: AmSp mate < Quechua mati, calabash: in allusion to the gourd in which it is steeped

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