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Screwbean Mesquite

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Noun

1. prosopis pubescens, screw bean, screwbean, screwbean mesquite, tornillo

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Screwbean Mesquite

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n.
A mesquite (Prosopis pubescens) of the southwest United States and northern Mexico, having twisted seedpods that resemble a corkscrew. Also called screwbean, tornillo.

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