tornillo

Questions about tornillo

What does tornillo mean?

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

How many syllables are in tornillo?

tornillo has 3 syllables and divides as tor-nil-lo under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for tornillo?

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

tornillo 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.