Mesquite is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MESQUITE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a spiny tree or shrub of the southwestern part of North America, also MESQUIT, MEZQUIT, MEZQUITE, MUSKIT
• 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.
• small tree whose sugary pods are used as animal fodder
• Alt. of Mesquit
• 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 sugar

Words related to MESQUITE

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Words that contain MESQUITE

mesquites20

How to use MESQUITE in a sentence

• Our course lay to the east of north, over an elevated, arid plain, covered with a thick growth of prickly-pear, and scrubby mesquite.
• Had he a destination? It was vague as his knowledge of that great waste of mesquite and rock bordering the Rio Grande.
• When consciousness returned he found himself lying in a little hut of mesquite branches.
• There were clumps of mesquite in sight, among which the horse might have strayed.
• Fifteen or twenty miles out Duane drew rein in a forest of mesquite, dismounted, and searched about for a glade with a little grass.
• He was a long while in coming to it, and then there was no thicket or clump of mesquite near the waterhole that would afford him covert.
• There were patches of open sandy ground between clumps of cactus and mesquite, and he found that despite a zigzag course he made better time.
• When he reached the cover of mesquite once more he looked back to find six horsemen within rifle-shot of him, and more coming behind them.
• Heading toward them, he rode perhaps a quarter of a mile to come upon a grove of mesquite.
• CHAPTER XXIII Duane returned to Fairdale and camped in the mesquite till the twenty-third of the month.
• The plain was sprinkled here and there with thickets of acacia and mesquite.
• Quail scurried away under the mesquite bushes, stealthily whistling, and here and there the two stones still marked the way.
• He made a dry camp that night in a sea of mesquite at the edge of a sand plain, although, he knew he could not now be far from the Double A range.
• I did not one bit fancy the canons, the mesquite patches, and the open ground of the usual route.
• Dan quickly dragged the prostrate man into a clump of mesquite.
• A big masked guy come out from the mesquite and helped himself to my gun.
• He crawled beneath the lowest wire and moved through the mesquite to a point from which he could see the building where Farrar and Threewit were held prisoners.
• The three canvas shelters of the bell type were soon erected, and then, with mesquite roots, Coyote Pete kindled a fire and put the kettle on.
• The scent at times left the river and circled through outlying mesquite groves, always keeping well under cover.
• The ground was thickly wooded with second growth and mesquite bush.
• The honey from the flowers of mescal and mesquite is the best to be obtained in this country of innumerable bees.
• Within another hour I noticed we were going down a dry arroyo, with mesquite brush on both sides of the road, which was little better than a trail.
• The sleeves were torn out of my shirt, and my face and arms were scratched and bleeding from the thorns of the mesquite.
• There were eight cane leaves to seven of the mesquite.
• He watched them come on up to the little house, where they disappeared at the end where the mesquite tree grew.
• With the exception of this one man, all of us circled back through the mesquite brush and reached the wagon, which had halted.
• Suddenly in the dark we encountered a mesquite thicket into which the lead cattle tore with a crashing of brush and a rattle of horns that sent a chill up and down my spine.
• Our horses were Kentucky-bred, strengthened by the mesquite grass of the west.
• Soon the road dwindled and disappeared, and they struck across a world carpeted with an endless reach of curly mesquite grass.
• When they had ridden down the far slope of the hills they were once more upon the edges of the solitudes of sand-sweep and sand-ridge and cactus and mesquite and utter drought.
• The red scarf with which I had signaled the girls waved from a branch of the mesquite.
• The grass was shoe-top deep, and the mesquite timber looked just like a peach orchard.

Similar words containing MESQU without suffix ite

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