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" (16 found)
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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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