Meanings (ES + gloss)
mezquite
Any of several deciduous trees of the genus Prosopis found in America, and used as forage, which have long, beige seed and bean pods which may be dried and ground into a sweet, nutty flour.
Between these canyons the river has a low but rather narrow flood plain, with cottonwood groves scattered here and there, and a chaparral of mesquite bearing beans and thorns.
[…] and no botanist could for a moment fail to recognize this fact, especially as just beyond its banks there is growing on every hand the mesquite, the everywhere-present species…
Phrases
curly mesquitefalse mesquitegiant mesquite bughoney mesquitemesquite beanmesquite bushmesquite flourmesquite gall midgemesquite grassmesquite gummesquite lizardmesquite looper mothmesquite mistletoemesquite mousemesquite stinger mothmesquite webworm mothmock mesquitescrew pod mesquitescrew-pod mesquitescrewbean mesquitevine mesquitewestern honey mesquite
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