Flora normally found in the deserts of West Texas, such as catclaw mimosa and soaptree yucca, also occur on dry sites.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)] Reference

Over the prickly pear and catclaw brush we quickly made our way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads] Reference

I didn't even feel it at the time but I'd sliced myself to ribbons on the catclaw.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lazz Loads: The Short Magnums] Reference

Absolutely worst, though, is the catclaw that grows in the draws and flats out around Big Bend.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lazz Loads: The Short Magnums] Reference

Mesquite: strong flavor--not exactly tangy like the catclaw, but like SuperHoney, however not much aftertaste.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-04-01] Reference

Miller (1955a: 174) stated that the habitat of this species consisted of catclaw-covered bottom lands at the base of the Sierra del.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds from Coahuila, Mexico] Reference

At middle elevations, dense thickets of shrubs such as desert ceanothus, alderleaf mountain mahogany, and catclaw mimosa form chaparral communities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA)] Reference

Common and characteristic plants include several acacias: boat-thorned acacia (Acacia cochliacantha), and tree catclaw, or tésota (Acacia occidentalis).    From Wordnik.com.  [Sonoran-Sinaloan transition subtropical dry forest] Reference

Miller (1955a: 168) reported that "this desert species followed the catclaw scrub up the washes to about 4800 feet, the limit of such habitat" in the Sierra del.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds from Coahuila, Mexico] Reference

At middle elevations, a chaparral community occurs beneath the trees, composed of shrubs such as desert ceanothus, alderleaf mountain mahogany, and catclaw mimosa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)] Reference

The biscuits made for another good honey sampling opportunity and Brian challenged my declaration that the wildflower honey was blah--he thought it was stronger than the catclaw.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-04-01] Reference

Miller (1955a: 171-172) reported this vireo as a summer resident in "the low catclaw-dominated scrub in the lower washes of Boquillas Canyon and its side valleys, at 4600 to 4800 feet" in the Sierra del Carmen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds from Coahuila, Mexico] Reference

He had to hammer the catclaw deep into the smooth part of the stone, pull himself up, trust his weight to it while he hand-walked his height up the smooth wall, reached for the rope ... then suddenly drew back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Villains by Necessity]

The foothills loomed up here, too -- more lava formations, huge rocks balanced on top of each other and strewn along slopes that also bore catclaw, cholla, organ-pipe cactus abloom with pink and white and lavender flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hoodwink]

Vegetation is mostly mid and tall grasses such as seacoast bluestem, switchgrass, gulfdune paspalum, fringeleaf paspalum, sandbur, purple threeawn, pricklypear, and catclaw with an overstory of southern live oak and honey mesquite trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)] Reference

"Sorry you fell into the catclaw, Dinsmore," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oh, You Tex!] Reference

Over prickly peir and catclaw brush we quickly made our way.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crooked Trail to Holbrook (Arizon-I-O)] Reference

Dinsmore, his face in the catclaw, gave a smothered cry for help.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oh, You Tex!] Reference

She gathered ironwood and catclaw while he watched her vigilantly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crooked Trails and Straight] Reference

I remember hiking through mesquite and catclaw, having to disentangle from their nasty stickers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference

A little brown rabbit skipped around a bunch of catclaw and sat twitching his whiskers and looking humorously at Givens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of the West [Annotated]] Reference

He carried a peeled catclaw gad in his right hand, and with this gad he continually urged to a shuffling half-trot some one of the four burros.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Chance] Reference

"A sore heel, a mean soul and no spunk have killed more men than whisky" the Desert Rat commented whimsically, as he pulled the weak brother out of a cluster of catclaw.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Chance] Reference

Bounding over boulders or from them, flashing through catclaw and ocatillo, the appearance swooped and fell, the blend disjoined and shaped to semblance of a very small red pony bearing a very small blue boy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Copper Streak Trail] Reference

A machete is not a bad idea, but crucito thorns, granjeno, catclaw and others grow in such tangles that it's best to stomp over such brambles, tear through them, or go under in tunnels feral hogs and javelinas have carved out, and that whitetails use.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monitor :] Reference

"The trick in wall climbing," he muttered to himself, as he used a catclaw, a small metal hook and loop that was part of every thiefs tools, "is not to lose yer momentum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Villains by Necessity]

Candelilla and scrub catclaw.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Country For Old Men]

The sharp catclaw caught at their legs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crooked Trails and Straight] Reference

Posted by: catclaw | September 3, 2008 11: 28 AM.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Stories - Google News] Reference

Arrowweed, bitter-brush, mesquite, desert plantain, catclaw, thistle-sage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dear Carl] Reference

LePandaQuiRit My song is in the tune of "We Will we will rock you" SING IT!! sgrace429 Wow I can't listen to "we will rock you" without getting butterflies in my stomach ... catclaw I love it when the "classic rock" station at work plays The Doors '"Riders on the Storm" & Queen's "We Will Rock You" all in one day. xchrisssy We will, we will rock you commercial ... sigh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference