mesquite
See also: Mesquite
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Spanish mezquite, mizquite, from Nahuatl mizquitl (“mesquite tree”).
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /mɛsˈkiːt/, /ˈmɛskiːt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editmesquite (plural mesquites)
- Any of several deciduous trees of the genus Prosopis found in America, and used as forage, which have long, beige seed/bean pods which may be dried and ground into a sweet, nutty flour.
- 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 20:
- Between these canyons the river has a low but rather narrow flood plain, with cottonwood groves scattered here and there, and a chaparral of mesquite bearing beans and thorns.
- 1909, Volney Morgan Spalding, Distribution and movements of desert plants[1]:
- […] and no botanist could for a moment fail to recognize this fact, especially as just beyond its banks there is growing on every hand the mesquite, the everywhere-present species of the Lower Sonoran zone.
- The wood of these trees, used for smoking food, or charcoal made from this wood.
- Country or land dominated by mesquite trees.
- 1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:
- Tucson is situated in beautiful mesquite riverbed country, overlooked by the snowy Catalina range.
- 1900, David Prescott Barrows, The ethno-botany of the Coahuilla Indians of Southern California[2]:
- Southward and in the very center of the plain is La Mesa, hidden in the mesquite and with splendid, typically dug, wells.
Derived terms
edit- curly mesquite (Hilaria)
- false mesquite (Calliandra eriophylla)
- giant mesquite bug (Thasus neocalifornicus)
- honey mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa)
- mesquite bean
- mesquite bean
- mesquite bush (Prosopis spp.)
- mesquite flour
- mesquite gall midge (Asphondylia prosopidis)
- mesquite grass (Bouteloua spp.)
- mesquite gum
- mesquite lizard (Sceloporus grammicus)
- mesquite looper moth (Rindgea cyda)
- mesquite mistletoe (Phoradendron californicum)
- mesquite mouse (Peromyscus merriami)
- mesquite stinger moth (Norape tener)
- mesquite webworm moth (Friseria cockerelli)
- screwbean mesquite (Prosopis pubescens)
- screw pod mesquite
- screw-pod mesquite (Prosopis pubescens)
- vine mesquite (Panicum obtusum)
Translations
editProsopis
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References
edit- mesquite on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Prosopis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Prosopis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Portuguese
editNoun
editmesquite f (plural mesquites)
Spanish
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /mesˈkite/ [mesˈki.t̪e]
- Rhymes: -ite
- Syllabification: mes‧qui‧te
- Homophone: (Latin America) mezquite
Noun
editmesquite m (plural mesquites)
Further reading
edit- “mesquite”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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