screwbean mesquite

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

   Synonymsscrew beanscrewbeantornilloProsopis pubescens

   Broadermesquite

   Partsscrew bean

Questions about screwbean mesquite

What does screwbean mesquite mean?

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

What is another word for screwbean mesquite?

Close synonyms include screw bean, screwbean, tornillo, 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 mesquite a common word?

screwbean mesquite is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.