Definitions for Mesquite

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Mesquite mes·quite

Spelling: [me-skeet, mes-keet]

IPA: /mɛˈskit, ˈmɛs kit/

Mesquite is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 171 anagrams from letters in Mesquite (eeimqstu).

Definitions for Mesquite

noun

1. any of several usually spiny trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Prosopis, of the legume family, as P. juliflora or P. glandulosa, of western North America, having bipinnate leaves and beanlike pods and often forming dense thickets.
2. the wood of such a tree or shrub, used especially in grilling or barbecuing food.
3. any of various similar or related plants.
4. a city in NE Texas, E of Dallas.

Origin of Mesquite

1830-40, Americanism; Mexican Spanish mezquite Nahuatl mizquitl

Examples for Mesquite

They made their way to the kitchen, and started a blaze with mesquite bark.

ST: At my house, cooked on my Big Green Egg over lump charcoal and mesquite.

“The media really started to pay attention when someone died in 2011,” said Kenny Fritch, a 28-year-old from mesquite, Texas.

No doubt she could evolve a delicious gum from the mesquite and the incense plant.

For the first time since the stop in the mesquite, Carmena halted her quick advance.

But he made the bank and staggering up to the mesquite tree, he untied Peter.

He had scratches on his wrist, maybe from a cholla cactus or from sleeping under a mesquite tree.

Mistletoes on mesquite trees in central Mexico have been linked to a greater abundance of tropical bird species.

Its handle, she notes, was made from a mesquite tree in her back yard.

This suggestion instantly recalled to Clarence his vision in the mesquite.