单词 | mesquite bean |
释义 | > as lemmasmesquite bean 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. < as lemmas |
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