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MESQUIT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
mesquit; mesquite
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("mesquit" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mesquit"):
honey mesquite; Prosopis glandulosa; Western honey mesquite (thorny deep-rooted drought-resistant shrub native to southwestern United States and Mexico bearing pods rich in sugar and important as livestock feed; tends to form extensive thickets)
algarroba; Prosopis juliflora; Prosopis juliiflora (mesquite of Gulf Coast and Caribbean Islands from Mexico to Venezuela)
Prosopis pubescens; screw bean; screwbean; screwbean mesquite; tornillo (shrub or small tree of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico having spirally twisted pods)
Holonyms ("mesquit" is a member of...):
genus Prosopis; Prosopis (genus of tropical or subtropical branching shrubs or trees: mesquite)
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