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mesquite
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of North American shrub of the pea family, 1759, from Mexican Spanish mezquite, from Nahuatl (Aztecan) mizquitl "mesquite."
Wiktionary
n. 1 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. 2 The wood of these trees, used for smoking food, or charcoal made from this wood. 3 Country or land dominated by mesquite trees.
WordNet
n. any of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Prosopis having small flowers in axillary cylindrical spikes followed by large sugar-rich pods [syn: mesquit]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 4442
Land area (2000): 15.309435 sq. miles (39.651253 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.335395 sq. miles (0.868670 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 15.644830 sq. miles (40.519923 sq. km)
FIPS code: 46000
Located within: Nevada (NV), FIPS 32
Location: 36.802582 N, 114.082168 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
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Housing Units (2000): 276
Land area (2000): 0.825660 sq. miles (2.138450 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.825660 sq. miles (2.138450 sq. km)
FIPS code: 48270
Located within: New Mexico (NM), FIPS 35
Location: 32.162976 N, 106.693434 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 88048
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Headwords:
Mesquite
Housing Units (2000): 46245
Land area (2000): 43.415940 sq. miles (112.446764 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.048415 sq. miles (0.125395 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 43.464355 sq. miles (112.572159 sq. km)
FIPS code: 47892
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 32.782878 N, 96.609862 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 75149 75150 75181 75182
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Headwords:
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Wikipedia
Mesquite is the common name for the genus Prosopis spp and there are over 40 species of small leguminous trees. They are native to the southwestern United States and Mexico (except for creeping mesquite, which is invasive in southern California). The mesquite originates from the Tamaulipan mezquital ecoregion, in the deserts and xeric shrublands biome, located in the southern United States and northeastern Mexico. It covers an area of 141,500 km (54,600 sq mi), encompassing a portion of the Gulf Coastal Plain in southern Texas, northern Tamaulipas, northeastern Coahuila, and part of Nuevo León. As a legume, it is one of the few sources of fixed nitrogen in the desert habitat.
This tree blooms from spring to summer. They often produce pods or fruit that house their seeds. Prosopis spp are able to grow up to 8 m tall, with regards to site and climate. It is deciduous and depending on location and rainfall can have either deep or shallow roots. Prosopis spp is considered long-lived because of the low mortality rate after the dicotyledonous stage and juveniles are also able to survive in conditions with low light and drought.
Mesquite is a software package primarily designed for phylogenetic analyses. It was developed as a successor to MacClade, when the authors recognized that implementing a modular architecture in MacClade would be infeasible. Mesquite is largely written in Java and uses NEXUS-formatted files as input. Mesquite is available as a compiled executable for Macintosh, Windows, and Unix-like platforms, and the source code is available on GitHub.
Mesquite is a common name for several small trees in the genus Prosopis native to North American deserts.
Mesquite may also refer to:
Biology:- Mesquite lizard
- Mesquite mouse
- Mesquite, an open-source software program for evolutionary biology
- Mesquite, California
- Mesquite, Nevada
- Mesquite, New Mexico
- Mesquite, Texas
- Mesquite Creek, Arizona
- Mesquite Hills
- Mesquite Mountains
- Mesquite Bosque
- Mesquite Championship Rodeo
- Mesquite Kickers
Usage examples of "mesquite".
Laura had gone only twenty yards along the edge of the arroyo, she discovered a wide channel leading straight down to the floor of that dry river, unobstructed by rocks or mesquite.
Some there were among them, however, who, feeling perhaps a hint of rebellion upon the part of overdriven muscles, cut switches from ready mesquite and lashed recalcitrant legs until they bled, scarifying them to renewed life and vitality.
Nya grinned and led him away from the picnickers, past a clump of mesquite, towards a weathered outhouse half hidden by thick stalks of wild sorghum.
A stone bowl or basin made from an oblong, somewhat oval-shaped quartzite slab, and used for pounding and grinding mesquite beans.
A low nickering sound and the jingle of reins as Fandango pushed through the mesquite, looking for care and companionship.
The house itself was dark, but she smelled the scent of burning mesquite and as she neared the front door, she could see through the glass wall that logs were burning in the screenless living room fireplace.
He expected any moment to hear sirens and helicopters or see National Guard troops deploying to recapture them, even though he could look around and see the perfect circle of short scrubby oak and mesquite, which had unaccountably replaced the rest of Huntsville.
This plant had thriven all winter, and the cattle had forsaken the best mesquite grazing in the river bottoms to forage on it.
In the center, a large artificial waterfall plunged into a rocky pool surrounded by showy clumps of grass, a fifteen-foot green cactus with many branches and symmetrical ribs, and a tornillo mesquite with twisted limbs, hung wim odd-shaped corkscrew beans.
It consisted of a rank, coarse kind of grass, and arrowweed, mesquite, and tamarack.
Staring out the window, she thought that the feathery blooms of the mesquite trees looked like little green caterpillars.
Vast, undulating plains, sometimes sparsely covered with bunchgrass, but for the most part dry and sandy with cactus and mesquite thrusting skyward.
His unfocused gaze instinctively searched the prairie for hidden danger in the clumps of spiny mesquite and catclaw shrubs.
Beyond riparian woodland on the floodplain are thickets of mesquite and catclaw and these give way to chaparral and an evergreen woodland of oaks and junipers on the slopes.
He could not see the humour of his situation at the moment, but as he took a short cut through the shady mesquites toward his hut, he presently espied Margarita in ambush.