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Definition of Screw bean
1. Noun. Spirally twisted sweet pod of screwbean mesquite that is used for fodder or ground into meal for feed.
Group relationships: Prosopis Pubescens, Screwbean, Screwbean Mesquite, Tornillo
Generic synonyms: Pod, Seedpod
Generic synonyms: Pod, Seedpod
2. Noun. Shrub or small tree of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico having spirally twisted pods.
Exact synonyms: Prosopis Pubescens, Screwbean, Screwbean Mesquite, Tornillo
Generic synonyms: Mesquit, Mesquite
Generic synonyms: Mesquit, Mesquite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Screw Bean
Literary usage of Screw bean
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Useful wild plants of the United States and Canada by Charles Francis Saunders (1920)
"The Screw-bean is even more sugary than the ... In making Screw-bean meal, the
Indians grind the whole pods, seeds and all. ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"... and the screw bean, two forage plants of considerable value in the arid regions
of southern California and the Southwest. Stems with or without spines, ..."
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