Mesquite

n.
Honey mesquite .
See Algaroba (b).
Screw-pod mesquite ,
a smaller tree (Prosopis pubescens), having spiral pods used as fodder and sometimes as food by the Indians.
Mesquite grass ,
a rich native grass in Western Texas (Bouteloua oligostachya, and other species); -- so called from its growing in company with the mesquite tree; -- called also muskit grass, grama grass.