honey mesquite

English

Noun

honey mesquite (plural honey mesquites)

1. Prosopis glandulosa, a thorny shrub or tree in the legume family Fabaceae.
   • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 97:

     These habitats were most evident on the Iberian Peninsula where, by 15 million years ago, members of the thorn-rose genus (Neurada), esparto grass, honey mesquite and nitre bush (Nitraria) flourished in arid shrublands.