Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The screw-pod mesquit. See
mesquit .
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Examples
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Palmillas and bushes of sage (artemisia) are scattered here and there, but the mezquit is now becoming scarce, the tornilla or screwwood taking its place; farther on this wood ceases, and there is then no fuel to be met with of any description.
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_tornilla_ and _mesquite_, horses and cattle grazing belly-deep in the tall, juicy _zacaton_.
The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Edgar Beecher Bronson
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"We'll stay here in the _tornilla_ and see what happens, my friend.
Crooked Trails and Straight William MacLeod Raine 1912
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