HONEY MESQUITE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does honey mesquite mean? 

• HONEY MESQUITE (noun)
  The noun HONEY MESQUITE has 1 sense:

1. thorny deep-rooted drought-resistant shrub native to southwestern United States and Mexico bearing pods rich in sugar and important as livestock feed; tends to form extensive thickets

  Familiarity information: HONEY MESQUITE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HONEY MESQUITE (noun)

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Meaning:

Thorny deep-rooted drought-resistant shrub native to southwestern United States and Mexico bearing pods rich in sugar and important as livestock feed; tends to form extensive thickets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

honey mesquite; Prosopis glandulosa; Western honey mesquite

Hypernyms ("honey mesquite" is a kind of...):

mesquit; mesquite (any of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Prosopis having small flowers in axillary cylindrical spikes followed by large pods rich in sugar)