screwbean

Questions about screwbean

What is another word for screwbean?

It depends which screwbean you mean. In the sense “shrub or small tree of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico having spirally twisted pods”, the synonyms are screw bean, tornillo, screwbean mesquite, Prosopis pubescens. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of screwbean?

WordNet records no antonym for screwbean. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for screwbean come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of screwbean

• Full entry for screwbeanAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for screwbeanWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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