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Meanings of mesquit in English

Portuguese
mesquite
Spanish
mezquita

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.

        mesquite
        Usage of mesquit in English
        1
        Then he lay down in a dense mesquit thicket and waited for his foe.
        Bucky O'Connor: A Tale of the Unfenced Border
        2
        They found themselves treading short dead mesquit that did not greatly obstruct their progress.
        Lahoma
        3
        Chaparral, mesquit, and pear were distributed in just proportions.
        Roads of Destiny
        4
        They stood on one leg, chewed mesquit twigs and circumlocuted, for they hated to hurt his feelings.
        Roads of Destiny
        5
        Yesterday it had slept unborn in a nook of the sand-hills, the abiding-place of cat's-claw, mesquit, and flickering lizards.
        McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908
        6
        He come down on his head on a chunk of mesquit wood, and he didn't show any designs toward getting up again.
        Sixes and Sevens
        7
        The Irishman was careful to take no chances, and kept his party in the mesquit till the headlight of an approaching train was visible.
        Bucky O'Connor: A Tale of the Unfenced Border
        8
        He wanted to get away and have a good long sleep somewhere in the sun on the mesquit grass with his handkerchief over his face.
        Roads of Destiny
        9
        Near the station was a store; and near the store, scattered among the mesquits and elms, stood the saddled horses of the customers.
        Roads of Destiny
        Translations for mesquit
        Portuguese
        mesquite
        Spanish
        mezquita
        Mesquit through the time