Mostrenco
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Mostrenco is a word deriving from the Spanish language
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

, most famous as an origin of the English term "mustang". It can refer to:

Organisms

  • Mostrenco cattle
  • Algarrobo, bayahonda and mesquite
    Mesquite
    Mesquite is a leguminous plant of the Prosopis genus found in northern Mexico through the Sonoran Desert and Chihuahuan Deserts, and up into the Southwestern United States as far north as southern Kansas, west to the Colorado Desert in California,and east to the eastern fifth of Texas, where...

     trees (Prosopis
    Prosopis
    Prosopis is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae. It contains around 45 species of spiny trees and shrubs found in subtropical and tropical regions of the Americas, Africa, Western Asia, and South Asia. They often thrive in arid soil and are resistant to drought, on occasion...

    species) in the Fabaceae
    Fabaceae
    The Fabaceae or Leguminosae, commonly known as the legume, pea, or bean family, is a large and economically important family of flowering plants. The group is the third largest land plant family, behind only the Orchidaceae and Asteraceae, with 730 genera and over 19,400 species...

  • An indigoberry (Randia armata) in the Rubiaceae
    Rubiaceae
    The Rubiaceae is a family of flowering plants, variously called the coffee family, madder family, or bedstraw family. The group contains many commonly known plants, including the economically important coffee , quinine , and gambier , and the horticulturally valuable madder , west indian jasmine ,...


Other

It is also a Spanish slang term denoting a homeless person or a drifter, or someone considered unintelligent or daft. The former meaning, in combination with the related mestengo ("ownerless"), gave rise to the term "mustang".
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