Associations to the word «Prosopis»

Wiktionary

PROSOPIS, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Fabaceae   — the mesquites and algarrobos.

Dictionary definition

PROSOPIS, noun. Genus of tropical or subtropical branching shrubs or trees: mesquite.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope