| 单词 | screw-bean |
| 释义 | > as lemmasscrew-bean screw-bean n. a mesquite having pods coiled in a tight spiral, Prosopis pubescens (more fully screw-bean mesquite); (also) a pod of this plant, used for food and ornament. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > [noun] > prosopis or mesquite cod tree1704 algarroba1717 mizquitl1753 mesquite1759 Prosopis1776 screw-bean1851 screw mesquite1853 tornillo1866 kiawe1915 tamarugo1972 1851 A. W. Whipple in Rep. Secretary of War communicating Lt. Whipple's Exped. San Diego to Colorado 7 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 2nd Sess.: Senate Executive Doc. 19) III The accompanying sketch represents a branch of the mizquite screw-bean. 1863 Wisconsin Farmer 1 Nov. 398/2 This [sc. the musquit] and the screw bean are varieties of the accasia (locust). 1909 Out West July 645 Every evening they sat and split sticks with which to build bins..for the screw beans that they had gathered. 1999 Beadwork Summer 40/1 Blooms finally come in early May to the ocotillo and the creosote, the Mojave yucca and the screwbean mesquite. 2010 Poetry 196 209 He goes interiorly to trade conches sea-snails & screw-beans for red-dyed deer-tail tassels. < as lemmas |
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