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mesquit |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Mesquite \Mes*qui"te\, Mesquit \Mes*quit"\, 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}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: mesquit n : any of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Prosopis having small flowers in axillary cylindrical spikes followed by large sugar-rich pods [syn: {mesquite}]
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