Mesquite

What do we mean by mesquite?

Any of various small spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Prosopis of the pea family, native to hot, dry regions chiefly of the Americas and important as a source of firewood, nectar for honeybees, and forage for cattle. The pods of most species are edible. noun

See mesquit. noun

See mesquit. noun

Aany of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the southwestern part of North America belonging to the genus Prosopis having small flowers in axillary cylindrical spikes followed by large sugar-rich pods, especially the honey mesquite, and screw-pod mesquite. noun

See Algaroba (b). noun

A smaller tree (Prosopis pubescens), having spiral pods used as fodder and sometimes as food by the Indians. noun

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. noun

Any of several deciduous trees of the genus Prosopis found in North America, and used as forage, which have long, beige seed/bean pods which may be dried and ground into a sweet, nutty flour. noun

The wood of these trees, used for smoking food, or charcoal made from this wood. noun

Country or land dominated by mesquite trees. 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 noun

Any of several deciduous trees of the genus Prosopis found in North America, and used as forage, which have long, beige seed/bean pods which may be dried and ground into a sweet, nutty flour.

The wood of these trees, used for smoking food, or charcoal made from this wood.

Country or land dominated by mesquite trees.

Words that are spelled similarly to mesquite:
mesquite, mesquit, mesquita, requite, mosquito, esquire, misquote, mesolite, mezquita, musquito, mosquitoe, mesquites, mesquin, esquive.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word mesquite:
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Words that rhyme with mesquite:
beat, browbeat, discrete, meet, eat, sheet, discreet, seat, treat, street, heat, receipt, elite, sweet, suite, complete, obsolete, neat, meat, retreat, concrete, feet, fleet, feat, replete, conceit, effete, sleet, mete, deceit, defeat, deplete, cheat, beet, compete, athlete, wheat, repeat, greet, upbeat, bittersweet, cleat, delete, peat, petite, backseat, tweet, gamete, st, skeet, bleat, pete, pleat, overeat, secrete, heartbeat, spreadsheet, worksheet, deadbeat, buckwheat, deet, offbeat, teat, leet, crete, indiscreet, incomplete, neet, teet, excrete, piet, parakeet, unseat, creat, marguerite, time sheet, drumbeat, mistreat, gleet, downbeat, peet, balance sheet, mincemeat, amit, overheat, creaght, crabmeat, flete, love seat, poteat, high street, wall street, grete, noncompete, trick or treat, dead heat, hot seat, car seat, speet, white heat.

Adjectives that are often used to describe mesquite:
curly, honey, thorny, green, big, old, large, dead, thick, stunted, dense, scrubby, dry, tall, small, screwbean, low, gnarled, western, occasional, scattered, young, common, velvet, twisted, gray, scraggly, nearby, much, native, huge, ancient, giant, heavy, hardy, dark, black, thin, lone, sparse, chaparral, distant, vine, dusty, spiny, bean, pod, buried, less, hard, beautiful, tough, wide, feathery, shrubby, dainty, nearest, lonely, mature, scrawny, woody, growing, scraggy, tangled, brushy, leafed, dull, matted, mexican, hot, parched, wild, ubiquitous, fresh, prickly, intrenched, south, polished, sweet, topped, adjacent.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective mesquite:
trees, beans, grass, wood, pods, brush, tree, grassland, gum, limbs, bushes, roots, seeds, bark, robbery, bush, charcoal, schist, valleys, leaf, flour, smoke, grilled, meal, smoked, honey, scrub, groves, thorns, thickets, grasslands, bean, control, use, forest, log, chips, terrane, gatherers, area, branches, leaves, seedlings, community, district, country, relatives, bread, rocks, pollen, savannas, settlement, plants, blocks, association, posts, root.

Consonant match to mesquite:
mascot, muscat, musket, mess kit, mask it, mass cut, mosque it.

Words that sound like mesquite:
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