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Screw Bean

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Noun

1. screw bean

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

2. prosopis pubescens, screw bean, screwbean, screwbean mesquite, tornillo

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

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Screw Bean

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1. 
the spirally twisted pod growing on a mesquite tree (Prosopis pubescens) of the SW U.S., often used for fodder
2. 
this tree

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