screwbean

1. 1.

   shrub or small tree of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico having spirally twisted pods

   Synonymsscrew beantornilloscrewbean mesquiteProsopis pubescens

   Broadermesquite

   Partsscrew bean

Other forms of screwbean

plural

screwbeans·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about screwbean

What does screwbean mean?

screwbean means "shrub or small tree of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico having spirally twisted pods".

How many syllables are in screwbean?

screwbean has 3 syllables: screw-be-an. The stress falls on "screw".

What is another word for screwbean?

Close synonyms include screw bean, 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 screwbean a common word?

screwbean 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.