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Definition of Mesquites
1. mesquite [n] - See also: mesquite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mesquites
Literary usage of Mesquites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Birds of the Western United States: Including the Great Plains by Florence Merriam Bailey (1921)
"6 to 25 feet from the ground, generally in mesquites, pecans, oaks, or telegraph
poles. Eggs: 4 to 7, white. Food. — Insects of various kinds, ..."
2. Forest Trees of the Pacific Slope by George Bishop Sudworth, United States..Forest Service. (1908)
"mesquites. The mesquites form a group of small or medium-sized trees and shrubs,
all of which inhabit subtropical or tropical countries, ..."
3. The Quirt and the Spur: Vanishing Shadows of the Texas Frontier by Edgar Rye (1909)
"... concealed themselves in the mesquites at the foot of the avenue near the river.
About twenty yards before the trail dipped into the depression where the ..."
4. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico V. 2/4 by Frederick Webb Hodge (2003)
"mesquites.—Solls (1767) quoted by HE Bol- ton, inf'n, 1906. ... A tribe called
mesquites lived in 1757 across the Rio Grande at Villa de Santander. ..."
5. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1895)
"A few were met with in the mesquites about camp until about May 15, after which
I think none were seen or heard. At the mission they were quite common and ..."
6. Desert Gold by Zane Grey (1913)
"he had covered another quarter of a mile before horses and raiders appeared upon
the outskirts of the mesquites. Then Blanco Sol stopped. ..."
7. A Virginian Village, and Other Papers: Together with Some Autobiographical Notes by Ehrman Syme Nadal (1917)
"I did not see the cactus or the interminable mesquites looking like orchards.
... Beyond the mesquites which cover the country, there are only the ..."
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