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Definition of Screwbean

1. Noun. Shrub or small tree of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico having spirally twisted pods.

Definition of Screwbean

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Screwbean

Literary usage of Screwbean

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Check List of the Forest Trees of the United States: Their Names and Ranges by George Bishop Sudworth (1898)
"screwbean. RANGE.—Western Texas (valley of Rio Grande River, from Devils River to El Paso); west through New Mexico, Arizona, southern borders of Utah and ..."

2. Bulletin by Geological Survey (U.S.) (1905)
"The sulphur occurs associated with gypsum in northeastern El Paso County, both east and west of the screwbean-Rustler Hills. A sketch map of the district ..."

3. The Leading Facts of New Mexican History by Ralph Emerson Twitchell (1917)
"A sheep camp at screwbean, a postoffice and two or three dwellings at Lookout on Black river, and the same at Seven Rivers; "Bob Gilbert's" house on the ..."

4. Nature and Science on the Pacific Coast: A Guide-book for Scientific by Pacific Coast Committee (1915)
"Around Palm Springs and between the Springs ana the Canon one will encounter the mesquite, screwbean, palo verde, smoke tree, and The most striking ..."

5. Nature and Science on the Pacific Coast: A Guide-book for Scientific by Pacific Coast Committee, Betty Hoag McGlynn (1915)
"Around Palm Springs and between the Springs ana the Canon one will encounter the mesquite, screwbean, palo verde, smoke tree, ..."

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