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mesquite beans

mesquite beans is the plural of mesquite bean.

Meaning of mesquite bean

Noun

mesquite bean (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 cactus1895, 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...

Questions about mesquite beans

What is mesquite beans the plural of?
Mesquite beans is the plural of mesquite bean.

Words near mesquite beans in the dictionary

  1. Mesquakie
  2. Mesquakies
  3. mesquit
  4. mesquite
  5. mesquite bean
  6. mesquite beans
  7. mesquite bush
  8. mesquite bushes
  9. mesquite flour
  10. mesquite flours
  11. mesquite gall midge

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