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.
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Examples for "mesquite "
Examples for "mesquite "
1 Above all, it is the land of the creosote and the mesquite .
2 The children snuggled under the feathery shadow of the mesquite beside him.
3 The packs were slipped, securely tied and hidden in a mesquite clump.
4 The young fellow swung his horse expertly and cantered into the mesquite .
5 Not a mesquite twig snapped under his body; not a pebble rattled.
1 Then he lay down in a dense mesquit thicket and waited for his foe.
2 They found themselves treading short dead mesquit that did not greatly obstruct their progress.
3 Chaparral, mesquit , and pear were distributed in just proportions.
4 They stood on one leg, chewed mesquit twigs and circumlocuted, for they hated to hurt his feelings.
5 Yesterday it had slept unborn in a nook of the sand-hills, the abiding-place of cat's-claw, mesquit , and flickering lizards.
6 He come down on his head on a chunk of mesquit wood, and he didn't show any designs toward getting up again.
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.
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.
9 Near the station was a store; and near the store, scattered among the mesquits and elms, stood the saddled horses of the customers.
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