| NOUN | plant | tornillo, screw bean, screwbean, screwbean mesquite, Prosopis pubescens | shrub or small tree of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico having spirally twisted pods |
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| Meaning | shrub or small tree of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico having spirally twisted pods. | |
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| Synonyms | screw bean, screwbean, screwbean mesquite, Prosopis pubescens | |
| Parts | screw bean | spirally twisted sweet pod of screwbean mesquite that is used for fodder or ground into meal for feed |
| Broader | mesquite, mesquit | Any of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Prosopis having small flowers in axillary cylindrical spikes followed by large pods rich in sugar |
| Spanish | screwbean, tornillo | |
| Catalan | screwbean | |
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