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• The gourd or “maté” (pronounced “mah’tay”) is a commercially grown vegetable gourd decorated with silver or left plain. (The silver is attached with a non-toxic adhesive) • The “bombilla” (pronounced bomb-bee’-ja) is the filtering straw. The bombilla is used to extract the nutrients from the tea in an infusion method.
