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Definition of Prosopis pubescens
1. Noun. Shrub or small tree of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico having spirally twisted pods.
Generic synonyms: Mesquit, Mesquite
Terms within: Screw Bean
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prosopis Pubescens
Literary usage of Prosopis pubescens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select Extra-tropical Plants: Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1885)
"prosopis pubescens, Bentham. The Tornillo or Screw-bean. Texas, California, Mexico.
The pods ripen at all seasons and contain much saccharine nutritive ..."
2. Select Extra-tropical Plants, Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1888)
"prosopis pubescens, Bentham. The Tornillo or Screw-bean. Texas, California, Mexico.
The pods ripen at all seasons and contain much saccharine nutritive ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1903)
"Prosopis juliflora, with an elongated straight or falcate pod; prosopis pubescens,
with a thick twisted pod ..."
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