- mesquite, mesquit - any of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Prosopis having small flowers in axillary cylindrical spikes followed by large sugar-rich pods
--1 is a kind of shrub, bush
--1 is a member of Prosopis, genus Prosopis
--1 has particulars:honey mesquite, Western honey mesquite, Prosopis glandulosa; algarroba, Prosopis juliflora, Prosopis juliiflora; screw bean, screwbean, tornillo, screwbean mesquite, Prosopis pubescens