mesquite

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Sam turned off the old Government road at the split mesquite, and struck down the arroyo of the Quintanilla.

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  1. noun Any of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Prosopis in the pea family, native to hot, dry regions of the New World and important as plants for bees and forage for cattle, especially:
  2. noun P. glandulosa, native to the southwest United States and northern Mexico. Also called honey mesquite, western honey mesquite.
  3. noun P. juliflora, native to the Gulf Coast and Caribbean islands from Mexico to Venezuela. Also called algarroba.

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  • And the mesquite is not the only tree being turned into charcoal; the desert is being drift-netted so to speak, Five or six other legumes critical to the stability of the desert ecosystem are being cut as well: ironwood trees, for example, which are nurse plants and protect cacti from desert extremes Omni. —  Omni: July 1994
  • There were whole square miles of mesquite, and sometimes broad patches of decent grassland running in irregular linear shapes, like there must be water underground. —  Echo Burning by Lee Child
  • Don't use hickory or mesquite, whose strong flavors fight the spicy marinade. —  www.appeal-democrat.com - News :
  • At savanna woodland sites in southern Texas, discrete clusters of woody plants form in herbaceous clearings following the invasion of mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa var. glandulosa), an arborescent legume. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Question: We have a Chilean mesquite, 24-inch box tree. —  azcentral.com | news
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  1. Spanish mezquite, from Nahuatl mizquitl.
 

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