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Definition of Tornillo
1. Noun. Shrub or small tree of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico having spirally twisted pods.
Generic synonyms: Mesquit, Mesquite
Terms within: Screw Bean
Definition of Tornillo
1. Noun. A small tree, ''Prosopis pubescens'', native to Mexico and parts of the United States that has spirally twisted pods; the screw bean ¹
2. Noun. (geology) A low-frequency seismic event associated with volcanoes ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tornillo
1. a flowering shrub [n -LOS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tornillo
Literary usage of Tornillo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Technological Dictionary: English-Spanish and Spanish-English of Words and by Néstor Ponce de León (1920)
"knob ' ferr ) cabeza de tornillo. — 1ère ri palanca de tornillo. ... tornillo d>
rencial de Hunter. dip of the —, inmersión de la hélice. double threaded—, ..."
2. Stoddart's Encyclopaedia Americana: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by American supplement, Encyclopaedia britannica (1886)
"Bentham, the tornillo of the Mexicans, is sometimes known as the screw-pod mezquite.
The twisted pods are used as the other, but its smaller size lends it ..."
3. The Mammals of Colorado: An Account of the Several Species Found Within the by Edward Royal Warren (1910)
"Peromyscus leucopus tornillo (Grk. leukos, white, + pous, foot, ... The tornillo
Deer-mouse has been taken in western Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, ..."
4. The Deinhardt-Schlomann Series of Technical Dictionaries in Six Languages (1906)
"bits of the vice (pl.) mâchoires (f. pl.) d'étau Backenfutter (n) vice-jaw
mâchoire (f> d'étau XXIV. тиски (m. pl.) morsa (f) tornillo (m) ..."
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