Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun tornillo
1 sense of tornillo
Sense 1
screw bean, screwbean, tornillo, screwbean mesquite, Prosopis pubescens -- (shrub or small tree of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico having spirally twisted pods)
=> mesquite, mesquit -- (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)