NOUN
- any of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Prosopis having small flowers in axillary cylindrical spikes followed by large pods rich in sugar
How To Use mesquit In A Sentence
- Third grade students do school work during class at Hanby Elementary School in Mesquite, Texas.
- Soon the rectangular farms gave way to rugged ranch land, canyons, ravines , red earth-and lots of mesquite trees.
- The cocoanut-palm, date-palm and orange orchards contrasted their rich foliage in the sunshine with the pineapple, banana and the rich soft turf of the mesquit-grass. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
- The upland natural vegetation in this dry-subhumid area is mostly mixed grass prairie, but mesquite – buffalograss and shinnery are native, respectively, to the south and to sandy areas; potential natural vegetation is distinct from the short grass prairie of the semiarid High Plains (25), the tall grass prairie of Ecoregions 28 and 40, and the oak savanna of the Cross Timbers (29). Ecoregions of Oklahoma (EPA)
- Some legume pods, such as carob and mesquite, are indehiscent and do not split open.
- At the end of the job, I bought a twelve-pack of Tecate and some limes and we sat together, one last time, under a mesquite tree drinking beer and waiting for the relative cool of the evening.
- Also on the menu are mesquite-grilled chicken and black bean chili.
- Plants that grow along the stream banks include alder, Fremont cottonwood, sycamore, honey mesquite, and Goodding willow.
- Vegetation is mostly mid and tall grasses such as seacoast bluestem, switchgrass, gulfdune paspalum, fringeleaf paspalum, sandbur, purple threeawn, pricklypear, and catclaw with an overstory of southern live oak and honey mesquite trees. Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)
- The moonlight played strange tricks with the mesquit and the giant cactus, Crooked Trails and Straight