The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mesquite \Mes*qui"te\ (m[e^]s*k[=e]"t[asl]), Mesquit \Mes*quit"\ (m[e^]s*k[=e]t"), n. [Sp. mezquite; said to be a Mexican Indian word.] (Bot.) 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.
Honey mesquite. See Algaroba (b) .
Screw-pod mesquite, a smaller tree ( Prosopis pubescens), having spiral pods used as fodder and sometimes as food by the Indians.
Mesquite grass, 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.
WordNet
n. pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America [syn: grama, gramma, gramma grass]
Usage examples of "grama grass".
They grazed together on the same fields and complemented each other nicely, the coarse manure of the cattle blending with the more concentrated manure of the sheep to keep the grama grass flourishing.
North of that, the yellow-tan of the grama grass prairie was marked by spots of darkness and color—.
Leaphorn looked out the window, at the late afternoon light on the broken sandstone surface of the Chaco cliffs, at the gray-silver tufts of grama grass on the talus slope, at the long shadow of Fajada Butte stretching across the valley.