Definitions
A drought-tolerant tree or shrub with pods and hard fragrant wood.
Word origin
Borrowed from Spanish mezquite, mizquite, from Nahuatl mizquitl (“the mesquite tree”).
Used in a sentence
“Between these canyons the river has a low but rather narrow flood plain, with cottonwood groves scattered here and there, and a chaparral of mesquite bearing beans and thorns.”
“[…] and no botanist could for a moment fail to recognize this fact, especially as just beyond its banks there is growing on every hand the mesquite, the everywhere-present species of the Lower Sonoran zone.”
“Tucson is situated in beautiful mesquite riverbed country, overlooked by the snowy Catalina range.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Desert hardwood”8 letters
02“Desert tree”8 letters
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