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    TORNILLO

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

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

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    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)

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