mesquit

• a variation of mesquite.
  mesquite

  noun

  any of several usually spiny trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Prosopis, of the legume family, as P. juliflora or P. glandulosa, of western North America, having bipinnate leaves and beanlike pods and often forming dense thickets.

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mesquit

Here flourishes the mesquit tree, Prosopis juliflora, with a tale to tell well worth knowing.

From Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer by George Iles

For hours they wandered in mesquit, dragged themselves through cactus, crossed washes, and climbed hills.

From Brand Blotters by Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert) Rowe

In the way she sped through the mesquit, evading the clutch of the cholla by supple dips to right and left, there was a kind of pantherine litheness.

From Brand Blotters by Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert) Rowe

Yesterday it had slept unborn in a nook of the sand-hills, the abiding-place of cat's-claw, mesquit, and flickering lizards.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 by Various

A rattlesnake above a prairie dog’s hole slid into the mesquit.

From Brand Blotters by Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert) Rowe

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