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plural mesquites
Any of several deciduous trees of the genus Prosopis found in America, and used as forage, which have long, beige seed/bean pods which may be dried and ground into a sweet, nutty flour. quotations examples
[…] 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 of the Lower Sonoran zone.
1909, Volney Morgan Spalding, Distribution and movements of desert plants
The wood of these trees, used for smoking food, or charcoal made from this wood. examples
Country or land dominated by mesquite trees. quotations examples
Tucson is situated in beautiful mesquite riverbed country, overlooked by the snowy Catalina range.
1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press
Southward and in the very center of the plain is La Mesa, hidden in the mesquite and with splendid, typically dug, wells.
1900, David Prescott Barrows, The ethno-botany of the Coahuilla Indians of Southern California