name
Meaning 1
An unincorporated community in Imperial County, California.
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Standard Lemma guide
mesquite
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name
Meaning 2
A city in Clark County, Nevada.
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name
Meaning 3
A census-designated place in New Mexico.
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name
Meaning 4
A city in Dallas County and Kaufman County, Texas; a suburb of Dallas.
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name
Meaning 5
A ghost town in Borden County, Texas.
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noun
Meaning 6
Any of several deciduous trees of the genus Prosopis found in America, and used as forage, which have long, beige seed and bean pods which may be dried and ground into a sweet, nutty flour.
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Broader terms: acacia
noun
Meaning 7
The wood of these trees, used for smoking food, or charcoal made from this wood.
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noun
Meaning 8
Country or land dominated by mesquite trees.
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noun
Meaning 9
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: mesquit
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Broader terms: shrub, bush
Narrower terms: honey mesquite, Western honey mesquite, Prosopis glandulosa, algarroba, Prosopis juliflora, Prosopis juliiflora, screw bean, screwbean, tornillo, screwbean mesquite, Prosopis pubescens
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish mezquite, mizquite, from Nahuatl mizquitl (“the mesquite tree”).
Across languages
Translations
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Mandarin: 豆科灌木 (dòukē guànmù) — Prosopis
- Finnish: mesquitopuu — Prosopis
- German: Mesquite-Baum — Prosopis
- Hawaiian: kiawe — Prosopis
- Nahuatl: mizquitl — Prosopis
- Navajo: díwózhiishzhiin — Prosopis
- Panamint: ohpimpü — Prosopis
- Portuguese: mesquite — Prosopis
- Quechua: churki — Prosopis
- Russian: мески́товое де́рево (meskítovoje dérevo) — Prosopis
- Spanish: mezquite — Prosopis
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