screw bean

Questions about screw bean

What does screw bean mean?

screw bean means "spirally twisted sweet pod of screwbean mesquite that is used for fodder or ground into meal for feed". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for screw bean?

Close synonyms include screwbean, tornillo, screwbean mesquite, Prosopis pubescens. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is screw bean a common word?

screw bean is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.