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单词 mesquite
释义

mesquite1

/ˈmɛskiːt / /mɛˈskiːt /
noun
A spiny tree or shrub of the pea family, native to arid regions of south-western US and Mexico. It yields timber, tanbark, medicinal products, and edible pods.
  • Genus Prosopis, family Leguminosae: several species.
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....
  • Juniper trees are common throughout the canyon as well as mesquite, cottonwood, salt cedar, willow, western soapberry and hackberry.
  • In summer months they eat cacti, sagebrush, mesquite, alfalfa, clover, other grasses, and herbaceous vegetation.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from Mexican Spanish mezquite.

Rhymes

Mesquite2

/məˈskēt /
A city in northeastern Texas, east of Dallas; population 132,123 (est. 2008).
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