mezquite

Their full leafy tops gave them a fine appearance, and their light pinnate leaves, with the long brown legumes hanging from their branches, told they were the famous "mezquite" trees -- the American acacia.

The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico Mayne Reid 1850

In terms of the abundance of species, this ecoregion is important because it is one of the areas with the highest concentration of mezquite (Prosopis spp.)

Tumbes-Piura dry forests 2008

We were in motion at two o'clock in the morning, and, taking a north-east course towards the base of the mountain chain, passed through mezquite groves, intersected by brooks of pure water flowing into the south branch of Cache Creek, upon one of which we are encamped.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 Various

A few mezquite trees and a chenopodiaceous shrub bordered the lake, and on these our mules munched till they had sufficiently refreshed themselves, when the call to saddle was sounded, and we groped silently our way in the dark.

What I Saw in California Edwin Bryant

Turning in the direction of the mountain, we put our horses into a hard run, and in a few moments were tearing our way through the mezquite bushes that fringed its base.

Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography Edwin Eastman

Out along the sandy barren and among the clumps of mezquite and greasewood, perhaps as many as ten soldiers, members of the guard, were scattering in rude skirmish order; now halting and dropping on one knee to fire, now rushing forward; while into the willows, that swept in wide concave around the flat, a number of forms in dirty white, or nothing at all but streaming breechclout, were just disappearing.

An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier Charles King 1888

-- The mezquite tree, of Texas, occasionally reaching a height of 25 to 30 feet.

Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture William Saunders 1861

Saba side, there is a stretch of twenty miles, where its channel cannot be reached, except by a single lateral ravine leading down to it at right angles, the entrance to which is concealed by a thick chapparal of thorny mezquite trees.

The Death Shot A Story Retold Mayne Reid 1850

And here he will see only the sterile treeless plain; or, if trees meet his eye, they will be such as but strengthen the impression of sterility -- some scrambling mezquite bushes, clumps of cactaceae, perhaps the spheroidal form of a melocactus, or yucca, with its tufts of rigid leaves -- the latter resembling bunches of bayonets rising above the musket "stacks" on a military parade ground.

The Death Shot A Story Retold Mayne Reid 1850

At the south the Llano Estacado tapers to a point, declining into the mezquite plains and valleys of numerous small streams that debouch into the Lower Rio Grande.

The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico Mayne Reid 1850