TORNILLO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tornillo mean? 

• TORNILLO (noun)
  The noun TORNILLO has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: TORNILLO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TORNILLO (noun)

Sense 1

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 ("tornillo" 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 "tornillo"):

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