单词 | screw-pod mesquite |
释义 | > as lemmasscrew-pod mesquite a. Any of various thorny, pinnate-leaved, thicket-forming trees and shrubs of the genus Prosopis (family Mimosaceae ( Leguminosae)), characteristic of arid regions of Mexico and the south-western United States (also mesquite tree); esp. P. glandulosa (more fully honey mesquite) and P. pubescens (more fully screw-pod mesquite). Also: the wood of any of these trees. Cf. mizquitl n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > [noun] > prosopis or mesquite cod tree1704 algarroba1717 mizquitl1753 mesquite1759 Prosopis1776 screw-bean1851 screw mesquite1853 tornillo1866 kiawe1915 tamarugo1972 1572 H. Hawkes in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) 547 Another tree which they call a Miskito: it beareth a fruite like vnto a peasecod marueilous sweete, which the wilde people gather and keepe it all the yeere, and eate it in steede of bread.] 1759 tr. M. Venegas Nat. & Civil Hist. Calif. I. 100 Their most usual device was to hold up in their hands some little tablets of wood made with great labour, for want of iron tools of mesquite. 1806 M. Lewis in Deb. Congr. U.S. (1852) 9th Congress 2 Sess., App. 1083 A bean that grows in great plenty on a small tree resembling a willow called masketo. 1838 ‘Texian’ Mexico v. Texas 70 Even where a tree appears it is sure to be a mesquite (Mimosa nilotica). 1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. i. 11 Here and there, are trees of acacia and mezquite—the denizens of the desert land. 1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 121 The Mesquite or Muskeet (Algarobia glandulosa), a bastard-locust. 1884 C. S. Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. 62 Prosopis pubescens... Screw-bean. Screw-Pod Mesquit. 1909 ‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny viii. 130 Near the store, scattered among the mesquits and elms, stood the saddled horses of the customers. 1953 V. Nabokov Let. 2 May in Sel. Lett. (1989) 136 The nearer mountains are maroon, spotted with the dark green of junipers and the lighter green of mesquites. 1986 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch 28 May 1 d/2 It's grilled over mesquite, which gives food a delicious flavor. 1992 T. McMillan Waiting to Exhale (1993) 77 She..found herself staring at the desert flowers and vegetation in her front yard:..organ pipes, purple and pink verbena..and mesquite trees. screw-pod mesquite screw-pod n. the screw-bean mesquite, Prosopis pubescens (more fully screw-pod mesquite, †screw pod mimosa); (also) a pod of this plant. ΚΠ 1855 Amer. Jrnl. Pharmacy 27 17 The Mezquite tree of Dr. Shumard, is probably either the Strambo carpa [sic] pubescens or screw pod mimosa, (Gray,) or the Algarobia glandulosa. 1895 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 8 50 There are two varieties of the Mezquite; that with the screw pod, which grows only in the valley of the Colorado, and that with the flat pod. 1903 R. B. Hough Amer. Woods IX. 24 The Screw-pod is a small tree. 2013 A. Journey Sonnets to Ambien ii, in Vulgar Remedies (electronic ed.) They pry them loose, take off through the screw-pod mesquite. < as lemmas |
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