Prosopis (prosopis)

[NL. (Linnæus, 1767), A den an thereæ, characterized by the cylindrical spikes, and by the pod, which is nearly cylindrical, straight or curved or twisted, coriaceous or hard and spongy, indehiscent, and commonly filled with a pulpy or fleshy substance between the seeds. There are about 16 species, scattered through tropical and subtropical regions, often prickly, thorny, or both, bearing broad and short pros lamb a no me nos (pros-lam-ba-nom'e-nos), η . [ προσλαμβανόμενος (sc. τόνος ), προσλαμ- βάνειν , take or receive besides, add, πρός , be- fore, + λαμβάνειν , take.] In Byzantine music , the lowest tone of the recognized system of tones: so called because it was added below the lowest tetrachord. Its pitch is supposed to have corre- sponded to that of the second A below middle C. pro-slavery (prō-slā'vėr-i), a . [L. pro , for, + E. slavery .] In U. S. hist . , favoring the princi- ples and continuance of the institution of slaprosodiencephalic (pros-o-dien-se-fal'ik or ly shortened very, or opposed to national interference there--sef'a-lik), a . [ prosodiencephal + -ic .] Per- with: as, a pro - slavery Whig; pro - slavery reso- lutions. The majority in the Senate was not merely Democratic, of the Lecompton or extreme pro - Slavery caste; it was especially hostile to Senator Douglas. H. Greeley, Amer. Conflict, I. 306. pros leps is (pros-lep's is), n. [NL.,