SCREW BEAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does screw bean mean? 

• SCREW BEAN (noun)
  The noun SCREW BEAN has 2 senses:

1. spirally twisted sweet pod of screwbean mesquite that is used for fodder or ground into meal for feed

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

  Familiarity information: SCREW BEAN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCREW BEAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spirally twisted sweet pod of screwbean mesquite that is used for fodder or ground into meal for feed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("screw bean" is a kind of...):

pod; seedpod (a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant)

Holonyms ("screw bean" is a part of...):

Prosopis pubescens; screw bean; screwbean; screwbean mesquite; tornillo (shrub or small tree of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico having spirally twisted pods)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Prosopis pubescens; screw bean; screwbean; screwbean mesquite; tornillo

Hypernyms ("screw bean" is a kind of...):

mesquit; mesquite (any of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Prosopis having small flowers in axillary cylindrical spikes followed by large pods rich in sugar)

Meronyms (parts of "screw bean"):

screw bean (spirally twisted sweet pod of screwbean mesquite that is used for fodder or ground into meal for feed)