mesquite bean

noun

The pod or seed of the mesquite.

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Meanings

nounmesquite bean (plural mesquite beans)

plural mesquite beans

  1. The pod or seed of the mesquite.

    They caught fish from the river and snared a few rabbits in the desert, but lived mainly on mesquite beans, the hearts of yucca plants, and the fruits of the cactus

    1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 27
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