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词汇 mesquite
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Definition of mesquite in English:

mesquite

noun mɛˈskiːtˈmɛskiːt
  • A spiny tree or shrub of the pea family, native to arid regions of south-western US and Mexico. It yields useful timber, tanbark, medicinal products, and edible pods. The timber is used for fencing and flooring, and burned in barbecues as flavouring.

    牧豆树

    Genus Prosopis, family Leguminosae: several species

    Example sentencesExamples
    • We are rich with saguaros, prickly pear, and cholla cacti, and palo verde, and mesquite trees.
    • And the smell of the Mojave after a drenching rain is an unforgettable pleasure, a scent flush with the pungent odor of creosote bush, mesquite, and sand verbena.
    • The mesquite, teriyaki, or herb sauces come in a bag big enough to let you marinate as much as three pounds of meat.
    • A canopy of hickory, oak and mesquite shrouded the barn and the muddy red clay, pinpointing where the pork, chicken and beef were becoming prize-winning barbecue.
    • Covered with scrub, native mesquite trees and low wild grasses, the desert site slopes gently down to the south.
    • Each and every time he parked and disappeared into the dense mesquites with bow and arrow, however, one of them would move the pickup.
    • Many species of ‘plains game’ and dangerous game in Africa are hunted amid thick cover similar to the mesquite brush and scrub oak common across Texas.
    • Plants that grow along the stream banks include alder, Fremont cottonwood, sycamore, honey mesquite, and Goodding willow.
    • It seemed to be an expanse of crispy brown grass, scattered with a few mesquite trees.
    • At the end of the job, I bought a twelve-pack of Tecate and some limes and we sat together, one last time, under a mesquite tree drinking beer and waiting for the relative cool of the evening.
    • A hint of seasonal cool is in the dawn, and the round sunsets over the mesquites are the essence of serious dove hunting in Texas.
    • This kind of symbiosis, incidentally, is also found in leguminous or pod forming plants - including peas and beans, wisteria vines, acacia, mesquite, and coral trees.
    • In summer months they eat cacti, sagebrush, mesquite, alfalfa, clover, other grasses, and herbaceous vegetation.
    • Organ Pipe is quintessential Sonoran Desert terrain, a landscape of cactus and creosote bush interspersed with jagged mountains and laced with thickets of mesquite, ironwood, and palo verde trees.
    • Morrish has a crisp, clean architectural style that can make mesquite trees and shrubs look majestic simply by scattering some gleaming white bunkers around them.
    • I have no idea what if anything was ever done with the structure or if it's still sitting there on the corner under the mesquite trees.
    • In reality there's nothing in that space but a view of a mesquite tree on the empty lot behind the motel grounds.
    • Juniper trees are common throughout the canyon as well as mesquite, cottonwood, salt cedar, willow, western soapberry and hackberry.
    • a bean from the plant Prosopis juliflora, which is a shrub related to mesquite and which grows in the south-western USA.
    • Extending into The Gila the Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts offer the desert element complete with yucca, mesquite, cactus, lizards, snakes, scorpions and the venomous Gila Monster.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from Mexican Spanish mezquite.

mesquite1

nounmeˈskētmɛˈskit
  • A spiny tree or shrub of the pea family, native to arid regions of southwestern US and Mexico. It yields useful timber, tanbark, medicinal products, and edible pods. The timber is used for fencing and flooring, and burned in barbecues as flavoring.

    牧豆树

    Genus Prosopis, family Leguminosae: several species, in particular P. glandulosa

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In summer months they eat cacti, sagebrush, mesquite, alfalfa, clover, other grasses, and herbaceous vegetation.
    • At the end of the job, I bought a twelve-pack of Tecate and some limes and we sat together, one last time, under a mesquite tree drinking beer and waiting for the relative cool of the evening.
    • Juniper trees are common throughout the canyon as well as mesquite, cottonwood, salt cedar, willow, western soapberry and hackberry.
    • We are rich with saguaros, prickly pear, and cholla cacti, and palo verde, and mesquite trees.
    • Plants that grow along the stream banks include alder, Fremont cottonwood, sycamore, honey mesquite, and Goodding willow.
    • In reality there's nothing in that space but a view of a mesquite tree on the empty lot behind the motel grounds.
    • A canopy of hickory, oak and mesquite shrouded the barn and the muddy red clay, pinpointing where the pork, chicken and beef were becoming prize-winning barbecue.
    • a bean from the plant Prosopis juliflora, which is a shrub related to mesquite and which grows in the south-western USA.
    • Each and every time he parked and disappeared into the dense mesquites with bow and arrow, however, one of them would move the pickup.
    • Covered with scrub, native mesquite trees and low wild grasses, the desert site slopes gently down to the south.
    • This kind of symbiosis, incidentally, is also found in leguminous or pod forming plants - including peas and beans, wisteria vines, acacia, mesquite, and coral trees.
    • Extending into The Gila the Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts offer the desert element complete with yucca, mesquite, cactus, lizards, snakes, scorpions and the venomous Gila Monster.
    • Many species of ‘plains game’ and dangerous game in Africa are hunted amid thick cover similar to the mesquite brush and scrub oak common across Texas.
    • I have no idea what if anything was ever done with the structure or if it's still sitting there on the corner under the mesquite trees.
    • And the smell of the Mojave after a drenching rain is an unforgettable pleasure, a scent flush with the pungent odor of creosote bush, mesquite, and sand verbena.
    • A hint of seasonal cool is in the dawn, and the round sunsets over the mesquites are the essence of serious dove hunting in Texas.
    • Organ Pipe is quintessential Sonoran Desert terrain, a landscape of cactus and creosote bush interspersed with jagged mountains and laced with thickets of mesquite, ironwood, and palo verde trees.
    • It seemed to be an expanse of crispy brown grass, scattered with a few mesquite trees.
    • The mesquite, teriyaki, or herb sauces come in a bag big enough to let you marinate as much as three pounds of meat.
    • Morrish has a crisp, clean architectural style that can make mesquite trees and shrubs look majestic simply by scattering some gleaming white bunkers around them.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from Mexican Spanish mezquite.

Mesquite2

proper nounməˈskēt
  • A city in northeastern Texas, east of Dallas; population 132,123 (est. 2008).

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