Both peoples lived off deer, small game, rodents, and even insects, but their main food sources were probably plants such as prickly pear cactus, mesquite beans, and pecan.
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Mesquite
//mɛsˈkiːt//
Synonyms for "mesquite" (1 found)
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Noun(1 words)
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11 translations across 11 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 豆科灌木 noun (Prosopis)
Finnish
1 entries- mesquitopuu noun (Prosopis)
German
1 entries- Mesquite-Baum noun (Prosopis)
Hawaiian
1 entries- kiawe noun (Prosopis)
Nahuatl
1 entries- mizquitl noun (Prosopis)
Navajo
1 entries- díwózhiishzhiin noun (Prosopis)
Panamint
1 entries- ohpimpü noun (Prosopis)
Portuguese
1 entries- mesquite noun (Prosopis)
Quechua
1 entries- churki noun (Prosopis)
Russian
1 entries- мески́товое де́рево noun (Prosopis)
Spanish
1 entries- mezquite noun (Prosopis)
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Between these canyons the river has a low but rather narrow flood plain, with cottonwood groves scattered here and there, and a chaparral of mesquite bearing beans and thorns.
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[…] and no botanist could for a moment fail to recognize this fact, especially as just beyond its banks there is growing on every hand the mesquite, the everywhere-present species of the Lower Sonoran zone.
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Tucson is situated in beautiful mesquite riverbed country, overlooked by the snowy Catalina range.
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