Definition of Mezquite

1. mesquite [n -S] - See also: mesquite

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mezquite

mezails
mezair
mezairs
mezcal
mezcals
meze
mezerein
mezereon
mezereons
mezereum
mezereums
mezes
mezlocillin
mezlocillin sodium
mezquit
mezquite (current term)
mezquites
mezquits
mezuza
mezuzah
mezuzahs
mezuzas
mezuzot
mezuzoth
mezz
mezza voce
mezzaluna
mezzalunas
mezzanine
mezzanine floor

Literary usage of Mezquite

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1876)
"The adhesive power of mezquite is very considerable, perhaps even greater than that of gum ... The color of mezquite, and of the mucilage prepared from it, ..."

2. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1861)
"In mezquite, the Mexican name of two kinds of shrubs bearing pods filled with pulp. They are leguminous plants in their natural characters, and belong to ..."

3. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"The mezquite seldom grows more than 30 or 40 ft. high, and when well developed ... Were it not for the mezquite, large tracts in Arizona and northern Mexico ..."

4. Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey: Made Under the by William Hemsley Emory, United States Dept. of the Interior, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Timothy Abbot Conrad, George Englemann, James Hall, Charles Christopher Parry, John Torrey (1859)
"... and prairie land, covered with mezquite, extends as far as the eye can see ; numerous well timbered and beautiful streams unite their waters with the ..."

5. Commerce of the Prairies, Or, The Journal of a Santa Fè Trader: Or, The by Josiah Gregg (1845)
"... —Peculiar Mode of cultivating the Grape—Forest Growths— Pitton and mezquite—Mountain ... mezquite ..."

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