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< yerba maté

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yerba san·ta

) KEY

NOUN:

Any of various western North American evergreen shrubs of the genus Eriodictyon, having purple or white flowers borne in coiled cymes and a funnel-shaped corolla.

ETYMOLOGY:
Spanish : yerba, herb + santa, holy

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