mesquite

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The thorny mesquite is undoubtedly another factor.
多刺的牧豆樹(shù)無(wú)疑是另一個(gè)因素。
In some of the grainy pictures, scrubby and deserted patches of creosote and mesquite sway in a gentle wind; in others, herons peck at fish in the shallow trickle of the Rio Grande.
在這些模糊的圖片中，一片片矮小荒蕪的木榴油和豆科灌木隨著微風(fēng)搖擺；還有一些則是蒼鷺在格蘭德河的淺谿中啄食魚(yú)類。
Intended as decorative erosion-proofing the mesquite quickly took off, helped by the fact that its seeds pass happily through the digestive tracts of the island’s small population of feral donkeys.
原本打算作爲(wèi)保護(hù)土壤的裝飾性植物的牧豆樹(shù)在島上迅速繁衍起來(lái)，原因是它的種子可以通過(guò)島上爲(wèi)數(shù)不多的野生毛驢的消化道而得到更好的傳播。

On 4, 000 sun-baked acres of mesquite, blackbrush and cactus 60 miles south of San Antonio, Tex.
FORBES: Whitacre's Way
He's got 44--most of them in dusty spots like Durant, Okla. and Mesquite, Tex.
FORBES: Surgery in The Sticks
It is along that strip that the mesquite and yellowboy grow most strikingly.
ECONOMIST: Ascension Island

any small leguminous tree of the genus Prosopis, esp the tropical American P. juliflora, whose sugary pods (mesquite beans) are used as animal fodder (Also called algarroba, honey locust, honey mesquite)