mesquite

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The thorny mesquite is undoubtedly another factor.
多刺的牧豆树无疑是另一个因素。
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.
在这些模糊的图片中，一片片矮小荒芜的木榴油和豆科灌木随着微风摇摆；还有一些则是苍鹭在格兰德河的浅溪中啄食鱼类。
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.
原本打算作为保护土壤的装饰性植物的牧豆树在岛上迅速繁衍起来，原因是它的种子可以通过岛上为数不多的野生毛驴的消化道而得到更好的传播。

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)