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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

1. : a shrub or small tree (Prosopis pubescens) of the southwestern U.S. — called also tornillo, screwbean mesquite

2. : a spirally twisted sweet pod that is the fruit of the screw bean and is used for fodder or ground into meal for use as feed

1. a tree, Prosopis pubescens, of the legume family, native to the southwestern U.S., bearing twisted pods used as fodder.

2. the pod itself. Also called tornillo.

[1865-70, Amer.]

screw bean,

1. a tree of the pea family, growing in the southwestern United States and in Mexico, and having twisted pods that are used as fodder; tornillo.

2. the pod.