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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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