Množina: mates
1. The partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner)
2. Informal term (Australian or British) for a friend of the same sex.
3. The officer below the master on a commercial ship; SYN. first mate.
Množina: mates
Checkmate.
Množina: matés
Paraguay tea (plant and beverage).
Dried leaves of the Brazilian holly Ilex paraguensis, an evergreen shrub that grows in Paraguay and Brazil. The roasted, powdered leaves are made into a tea.
South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate.
South American holly; leaves used in making a tealike drink; SYN. Paraguay tea, Ilex paraguariensis.
ETYM French mater to fatigue, enfeeble, humiliate, checkmate. Related to Mate checkmate.
To copulate, of animals.
Checkmate.