Definition of Mesqoite
{ Mes*qui"te (m&ebreve;s*kē"t&asl;),
Mes*quit" (m&ebreve;s*kēt") }, n.
[Sp. mezquite; said to be a Mexican Indian word.]
(Bot.) A name for two trees of the southwestern part of
North America, the honey mesquite, and screw-pod mesquite.
Honey mesquite. See Algaroba
(b). -- Screw-pod mesquite,
a smaller tree (Prosopis pubescens), having spiral pods
used as fodder and sometimes as food by the Indians. --
Mesquite grass, a rich native grass in Western
Texas (Bouteloua oligostachya, and other species); -- so
called from its growing in company with the mesquite tree; -- called
also muskit grass, grama grass.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- any of several small spiny leguminous shrubs, of the genus Prosopis, found in the New World tropics and used as forage; the wood is used for smoking food
Mesquite- a city (now a suburb of Dallas) in Texas
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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