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    MESQUIT

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     I. (noun) 

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    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 sugarplay

    Synonyms:

    mesquit; mesquite

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    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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