mesquiten.

Brit.

/mɛˈskiːt/, U.S.

/məˈskit/

Forms: 1700s– mesquite, 1800s masketo, 1800s mesquet, 1800s mesquito, 1800s mezkeet, 1800s mezquito, 1800s moscheto, 1800s mosquite, 1800s muskeete, 1800s muskete, 1800s musqueet, 1800s musquet, 1800s musqueto, 1800s musquite, 1800s musquito, 1800s– mesket, 1800s– mesketis (in compounds), 1800s– meskit, 1800s– mesquit, 1800s– mezquit, 1800s– mezquite, 1800s– mosqueit, 1800s– muskeet, 1800s– muskit, 1800s– musquit, 1900s– meskeet, 1900s– mesquiet, 1900s– mosquito.

Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish mezquite.

Etymology: < Mexican Spanish mezquite (1591; 1577 as mizquite ) < Nahuatl mizquitl mizquitl n.It is uncertain whether the form in quot. 1572 at sense 1a, which is earlier than the first attestation in Spanish and considerably earlier than those in English, represents the same word. The unusual form mesketis (only attested in the compound form mesketis-bush : see quot. 1887 for mesquite bush n. at Compounds 1a) is perhaps intended as a plural. N.E.D. (1906) also gives an alternative pronunciation, with the stress on the first syllable (me·skīt) /ˈmɛskiːt/.

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.

b. Country dominated by mesquite trees; a thicket of mesquite trees.

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the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [noun]

westerneOE

weste landOE

wastinea1175

westec1175

wastec1200

wildernc1200

wildernessc1200

wildernessc1230

warlottc1290

forestc1320

wastyc1325

deserta1398

wastern?a1400

wildnessa1513

the wilds of1600

vastness1605

vastacy1607

roughet1616

wild1637

wildland1686

bush1780

wastage1823

mesquite1834

wasteland1887

mulga1896

virgin bush1905

boondock1944

boonies1954

virgin land1955

the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [noun] > barren land or desert

desert?c1225

bare1683

slate-land1733

barren1784

mesquite1834

badlands1850

hardscrabble1859

pindan1888

in (also up) the blue1963

wasteland1966

the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > [noun] > prosopis or mesquite > thicket of

mesquite1910

1834 A. Pike Prose Sketches & Poems 63 We emerged from the broken hills into the mesquito.

1910 W. M. Raine Bucky O'Connor 224 The Irishman..kept his party in the mesquit till the headlight of an approaching train was visible.

1945 New Yorker 25 Aug. 26 A railroad bull came walking along the tops of the cars and kicked me into the mesquite.

1985 J. A. Michener Texas ii. 72 They started across flat grassland and mesquite.

2. In full mesquite grass. Any of various pasture grasses, esp. of the genus Bouteloua, which grow in association with mesquite trees.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > non-British grasses > [noun] > North American

salt grass1704

wiregrass1751

Indian grass1765

buffalo grass1784

blue-eyed grass1785

mountain rice1790

nimble Will1816

yard-grass1822

mesquite1831

poverty-grass1832

tickle-moth1833

bunch-grass1837

naked-beard grass1848

needle grass1848

Means grass1858

toothache-grass1860

Johnson grass1873

Indian rice grass1893

nigger babies1897

St. Augustine grass1905

pinyon ricegrass1935

1831 M. Holley Texas (1833) vi. 69 The pasturage here..called Muskit grass, (pronounced Muskeet) bears a strong resemblance to the blue grass.

1847 Western Texas 7 In grasses the glory of the State is the musquit, found only in Western Texas.

1852 W. B. Dewees & ‘C. Cardelle’ Lett. from Early Settler Texas 35 The musquit grass grows very thick and about three feet high, and looks very much like a blue grass pasture.

1857 F. L. Olmsted Journey through Texas 135 A great change occurred here in the prairie grass—we had reached the mesquit grass.

1904 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 649/2 A shimmering prairie of mesquite.

1956 H. St. John Flora S.E. Washington 46 Holcus lanatus... Velvet grass or mesquite.

1995 Austin (Texas) Amer.-Statesman (Nexis) 28 May a1 His boots planted amidst prickly pear and gray mesquite grass..DeVere looked out across a vast Zane Grey landscape.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive (chiefly in sense 1).

mesquite brush n.

ΚΠ

1806 M. Lewis in Deb. Congr. U.S. (1852) 9th Congress 2 Sess., App. 1103 Some small cultivated fields, fenced round with small cedar and moscheto brush.

1931 N.Y. Times 5 Nov. 27/7 I am going to try and get out here in the mesquite brush about eighty miles, at Uvalde, Texas, and see an old prairie dog, Jack Garner.

1962 E. B. Atwood Regional Vocab. Texas 41 Mesquite thicket..is used along with a few other terms such as mesquite flat(s)..and brush (land or country)..,the latter of which is confined to Southwest and West Texas.

1995 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 19 Mar. v. 8/1 They were there..to combat the unending encroachment of thorny mesquite brush onto farm and grazing land.

mesquite bush n.

ΚΠ

1821 S. F. Austin Jrnl. in Texas State Hist. Assoc. Q. (1904) 7 296 No timber, muskete bushes & grass.

1887 F. Francis Saddle & Mocassin 73 Wave after wave of rolling country sparsely covered with mesketis-bush.

1941 M. Whipple Giant Joshua 24 Supper fires were being lighted with dry cottonwood limbs or..mesquite bush.

1991 Atlantic Nov. 140/2 They were mesquite bushes, regularly spaced across the upwind slope of a long, powdery dune.

mesquite flour n.

ΚΠ

1854 J. R. Bartlett Personal Narr. Explor. & Incidents II. 217 The mezquit flour, which is ground very fine, has a sickish sweetness.

1995 Arizona Republic (Nexis) 20 Sept. fd 4 As Barta notes, mesquite flour is a natural sweetener, with a flavor similar to peanut butter.

1998 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 8 Nov. v. 11/1 A snack made entirely of ingredients ancient people would have used—mesquite flour, corn meal, honey, prickly pear fruit—though we doubted they would combine them as she had.

mesquite grove n.

ΚΠ

1852 R. B. Marcy Jrnl. in R. B. Marcy & G. B. McClellan Explor. Red River (1853) 66 We..passed through mezquite groves.

1889 Overland Monthly July 7/1 The young and the old..wander into the mesquite groves, where they fill huge baskets with the beans.

1998 Whole Earth (Nexis) 22 Sept. 76 Burns passed a place where mesquite groves had once covered the landscape. ‘All those trees were cut down to make charcoal, and at nearly no benefit to the local people.’

mesquite leaf n.

ΚΠ

1859 R. B. Marcy Prairie Traveler 291 There is but little grass here, but in the season the mesquite leaves are a good substitute.

1999 Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegr. (Nexis) 22 May 1 Not many animals eat mesquite leaves, but the beans are a different matter.

mesquite pasture n.

ΚΠ

1854 De Bow's Rev. May 474 The fine muskeet pastures..are scarcely less inferior for this purpose..to the Cibolo.

1905 A. Adams Outlet 16 The horses had run idle during the winter in a large mesquit pasture.

1997 Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegr. (Nexis) 27 Aug. 3 Hunters who haveaccess to areas with lots of mesquite pastures rather than fields may have to hunt the wooded areas to keep the birds moving.

mesquite pod n.

ΚΠ

1863 J. Greenwood Curiosities Savage Life 340 It is she who does nearly all the work..gathers the ‘mezquite’ pods, [etc.].

1990 Sci. News 2 June 350/2 Nabhan and his colleagues selected six starchy foods traditionally eaten by the Pimas: mesquite pods, acorns, [etc.].

mesquite tree n.

ΚΠ

1831 J. O. Pattie Personal Narr. Exped. from St. Louis 59 We found the river skirted with very wide bottoms, thick set with the musquito trees.

1894 Overland Monthly Nov. 548/2 The little scissor-tails..flitted about in the mesquit trees.

1991 S. Cisneros Woman Hollering Creek 18 There's also a gold crucifix bent crooked as a mesquite tree when someone once threw a bomb.

mesquite wood n.

ΚΠ

1816 W. Darby Geogr. Descr. Louisiana 210 There are two very distinct species of the robinia; one a tree of considerable size, the other a shrub, the latter is known by the name of musquito wood.

1846 J. A. Quitman Diary 13 Aug. in J. F. H. Claiborne Life & Corr. J. A. Quitman (1860) I. 239 The steamer purchases muskeet-wood at $2.50 per cord for dry, $2.25 green.

1903 N.Y. Herald 8 Mar. (Lit. section) 13/1 The bed of the carreta is made of open cross sections of mesquite wood.

1988 M. Stewart Quick Cook Menus ii. 80/2 Cook the fish over hot coals, to which mesquite wood chips or mesquite charcoal has been added for extra flavor.

mesquite bean n. the pod of the mesquite tree used as food or fodder for animals.

ΚΠ

1846 J. S. Griffin Diary 26 Nov. in Calif. Hist. Soc. (1942) 21 217 My riding mule was the most refractory of all. I however succeeded at last in making him drink, by covering the water with the musquite bean.

1929 J. F. Dobie Vaquero of Brush Country 3 There the curly mesquite grass..and mesquite beans keep horses fat the year round.

1992 Nat. Hist. Feb. 4/2 Crops failed about one year in every five, forcing the Pimas then to subsist entirely on wild foods, especially jack rabbits and mesquite beans.

C2. Forming parasynthetic adjectives relating to the process of cooking food with or over mesquite wood or charcoal to impart a hot smoky flavour, as mesquite-grilled, mesquite-spitted, etc.

ΚΠ

1958 ‘W. Henry’ Seven Men at Mimbres Springs xv. 174 Across the morning fires, mesquite-spitted slabs of mule-meat were roasting in great abundance.

1979 Tucson (Arizona) Mag. Feb. 103/2 You'll like the steak and beans. They are mesquite broiled and in plentiful proportions.

1994 Hispanic July 47/3 If you prefer your food with a twist, the Southwestern menu tempts visitors with dishes like mesquite-grilled fish Navaho with a chardonnay cream sauce.

1996 Argonaut 27 June 33 A mesquite grilled chicken Caesar salad, gourmet pizzas and a smoked duck breast salad are some of the selections available for lunch.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mesquite
释义	mesquiten. Brit. /mɛˈskiːt/, U.S. /məˈskit/ Forms: 1700s– mesquite, 1800s masketo, 1800s mesquet, 1800s mesquito, 1800s mezkeet, 1800s mezquito, 1800s moscheto, 1800s mosquite, 1800s muskeete, 1800s muskete, 1800s musqueet, 1800s musquet, 1800s musqueto, 1800s musquite, 1800s musquito, 1800s– mesket, 1800s– mesketis (in compounds), 1800s– meskit, 1800s– mesquit, 1800s– mezquit, 1800s– mezquite, 1800s– mosqueit, 1800s– muskeet, 1800s– muskit, 1800s– musquit, 1900s– meskeet, 1900s– mesquiet, 1900s– mosquito. Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish mezquite. Etymology: < Mexican Spanish mezquite (1591; 1577 as mizquite ) < Nahuatl mizquitl mizquitl n.It is uncertain whether the form in quot. 1572 at sense 1a, which is earlier than the first attestation in Spanish and considerably earlier than those in English, represents the same word. The unusual form mesketis (only attested in the compound form mesketis-bush : see quot. 1887 for mesquite bush n. at Compounds 1a) is perhaps intended as a plural. N.E.D. (1906) also gives an alternative pronunciation, with the stress on the first syllable (me·skīt) /ˈmɛskiːt/. 1. 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. b. Country dominated by mesquite trees; a thicket of mesquite trees. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [noun] westerneOE weste landOE wastinea1175 westec1175 wastec1200 wildernc1200 wildernessc1200 wildernessc1230 warlottc1290 forestc1320 wastyc1325 deserta1398 wastern?a1400 wildnessa1513 the wilds of1600 vastness1605 vastacy1607 roughet1616 wild1637 wildland1686 bush1780 wastage1823 mesquite1834 wasteland1887 mulga1896 virgin bush1905 boondock1944 boonies1954 virgin land1955 the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [noun] > barren land or desert desert?c1225 bare1683 slate-land1733 barren1784 mesquite1834 badlands1850 hardscrabble1859 pindan1888 in (also up) the blue1963 wasteland1966 the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > [noun] > prosopis or mesquite > thicket of mesquite1910 1834 A. Pike Prose Sketches & Poems 63 We emerged from the broken hills into the mesquito. 1910 W. M. Raine Bucky O'Connor 224 The Irishman..kept his party in the mesquit till the headlight of an approaching train was visible. 1945 New Yorker 25 Aug. 26 A railroad bull came walking along the tops of the cars and kicked me into the mesquite. 1985 J. A. Michener Texas ii. 72 They started across flat grassland and mesquite. 2. In full mesquite grass. Any of various pasture grasses, esp. of the genus Bouteloua, which grow in association with mesquite trees. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > non-British grasses > [noun] > North American salt grass1704 wiregrass1751 Indian grass1765 buffalo grass1784 blue-eyed grass1785 mountain rice1790 nimble Will1816 yard-grass1822 mesquite1831 poverty-grass1832 tickle-moth1833 bunch-grass1837 naked-beard grass1848 needle grass1848 Means grass1858 toothache-grass1860 Johnson grass1873 Indian rice grass1893 nigger babies1897 St. Augustine grass1905 pinyon ricegrass1935 1831 M. Holley Texas (1833) vi. 69 The pasturage here..called Muskit grass, (pronounced Muskeet) bears a strong resemblance to the blue grass. 1847 Western Texas 7 In grasses the glory of the State is the musquit, found only in Western Texas. 1852 W. B. Dewees & ‘C. Cardelle’ Lett. from Early Settler Texas 35 The musquit grass grows very thick and about three feet high, and looks very much like a blue grass pasture. 1857 F. L. Olmsted Journey through Texas 135 A great change occurred here in the prairie grass—we had reached the mesquit grass. 1904 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 649/2 A shimmering prairie of mesquite. 1956 H. St. John Flora S.E. Washington 46 Holcus lanatus... Velvet grass or mesquite. 1995 Austin (Texas) Amer.-Statesman (Nexis) 28 May a1 His boots planted amidst prickly pear and gray mesquite grass..DeVere looked out across a vast Zane Grey landscape. Compounds C1. a. General attributive (chiefly in sense 1). mesquite brush n. ΚΠ 1806 M. Lewis in Deb. Congr. U.S. (1852) 9th Congress 2 Sess., App. 1103 Some small cultivated fields, fenced round with small cedar and moscheto brush. 1931 N.Y. Times 5 Nov. 27/7 I am going to try and get out here in the mesquite brush about eighty miles, at Uvalde, Texas, and see an old prairie dog, Jack Garner. 1962 E. B. Atwood Regional Vocab. Texas 41 Mesquite thicket..is used along with a few other terms such as mesquite flat(s)..and brush (land or country)..,the latter of which is confined to Southwest and West Texas. 1995 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 19 Mar. v. 8/1 They were there..to combat the unending encroachment of thorny mesquite brush onto farm and grazing land. mesquite bush n. ΚΠ 1821 S. F. Austin Jrnl. in Texas State Hist. Assoc. Q. (1904) 7 296 No timber, muskete bushes & grass. 1887 F. Francis Saddle & Mocassin 73 Wave after wave of rolling country sparsely covered with mesketis-bush. 1941 M. Whipple Giant Joshua 24 Supper fires were being lighted with dry cottonwood limbs or..mesquite bush. 1991 Atlantic Nov. 140/2 They were mesquite bushes, regularly spaced across the upwind slope of a long, powdery dune. mesquite flour n. ΚΠ 1854 J. R. Bartlett Personal Narr. Explor. & Incidents II. 217 The mezquit flour, which is ground very fine, has a sickish sweetness. 1995 Arizona Republic (Nexis) 20 Sept. fd 4 As Barta notes, mesquite flour is a natural sweetener, with a flavor similar to peanut butter. 1998 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 8 Nov. v. 11/1 A snack made entirely of ingredients ancient people would have used—mesquite flour, corn meal, honey, prickly pear fruit—though we doubted they would combine them as she had. mesquite grove n. ΚΠ 1852 R. B. Marcy Jrnl. in R. B. Marcy & G. B. McClellan Explor. Red River (1853) 66 We..passed through mezquite groves. 1889 Overland Monthly July 7/1 The young and the old..wander into the mesquite groves, where they fill huge baskets with the beans. 1998 Whole Earth (Nexis) 22 Sept. 76 Burns passed a place where mesquite groves had once covered the landscape. ‘All those trees were cut down to make charcoal, and at nearly no benefit to the local people.’ mesquite leaf n. ΚΠ 1859 R. B. Marcy Prairie Traveler 291 There is but little grass here, but in the season the mesquite leaves are a good substitute. 1999 Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegr. (Nexis) 22 May 1 Not many animals eat mesquite leaves, but the beans are a different matter. mesquite pasture n. ΚΠ 1854 De Bow's Rev. May 474 The fine muskeet pastures..are scarcely less inferior for this purpose..to the Cibolo. 1905 A. Adams Outlet 16 The horses had run idle during the winter in a large mesquit pasture. 1997 Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegr. (Nexis) 27 Aug. 3 Hunters who haveaccess to areas with lots of mesquite pastures rather than fields may have to hunt the wooded areas to keep the birds moving. mesquite pod n. ΚΠ 1863 J. Greenwood Curiosities Savage Life 340 It is she who does nearly all the work..gathers the ‘mezquite’ pods, [etc.]. 1990 Sci. News 2 June 350/2 Nabhan and his colleagues selected six starchy foods traditionally eaten by the Pimas: mesquite pods, acorns, [etc.]. mesquite tree n. ΚΠ 1831 J. O. Pattie Personal Narr. Exped. from St. Louis 59 We found the river skirted with very wide bottoms, thick set with the musquito trees. 1894 Overland Monthly Nov. 548/2 The little scissor-tails..flitted about in the mesquit trees. 1991 S. Cisneros Woman Hollering Creek 18 There's also a gold crucifix bent crooked as a mesquite tree when someone once threw a bomb. mesquite wood n. ΚΠ 1816 W. Darby Geogr. Descr. Louisiana 210 There are two very distinct species of the robinia; one a tree of considerable size, the other a shrub, the latter is known by the name of musquito wood. 1846 J. A. Quitman Diary 13 Aug. in J. F. H. Claiborne Life & Corr. J. A. Quitman (1860) I. 239 The steamer purchases muskeet-wood at $2.50 per cord for dry, $2.25 green. 1903 N.Y. Herald 8 Mar. (Lit. section) 13/1 The bed of the carreta is made of open cross sections of mesquite wood. 1988 M. Stewart Quick Cook Menus ii. 80/2 Cook the fish over hot coals, to which mesquite wood chips or mesquite charcoal has been added for extra flavor. b. mesquite bean n. the pod of the mesquite tree used as food or fodder for animals. ΚΠ 1846 J. S. Griffin Diary 26 Nov. in Calif. Hist. Soc. (1942) 21 217 My riding mule was the most refractory of all. I however succeeded at last in making him drink, by covering the water with the musquite bean. 1929 J. F. Dobie Vaquero of Brush Country 3 There the curly mesquite grass..and mesquite beans keep horses fat the year round. 1992 Nat. Hist. Feb. 4/2 Crops failed about one year in every five, forcing the Pimas then to subsist entirely on wild foods, especially jack rabbits and mesquite beans. C2. Forming parasynthetic adjectives relating to the process of cooking food with or over mesquite wood or charcoal to impart a hot smoky flavour, as mesquite-grilled, mesquite-spitted, etc. ΚΠ 1958 ‘W. Henry’ Seven Men at Mimbres Springs xv. 174 Across the morning fires, mesquite-spitted slabs of mule-meat were roasting in great abundance. 1979 Tucson (Arizona) Mag. Feb. 103/2 You'll like the steak and beans. They are mesquite broiled and in plentiful proportions. 1994 Hispanic July 47/3 If you prefer your food with a twist, the Southwestern menu tempts visitors with dishes like mesquite-grilled fish Navaho with a chardonnay cream sauce. 1996 Argonaut 27 June 33 A mesquite grilled chicken Caesar salad, gourmet pizzas and a smoked duck breast salad are some of the selections available for lunch. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1759
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