/ Thesaurus / P Synonyms of prosopis pubescens Find synonyms for: Noun1. screw bean, screwbean, tornillo, screwbean mesquite, Prosopis pubescens, mesquite, mesquitusage: shrub or small tree of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico having spirally twisted podsWordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. Related Content Daily Word Quiz: feline Analogy of the Day: Today’s Analogy Spelling Bee: Today’s Spelling Bee Frequently Misspelled Words Frequently Mispronounced Words Easily Confused Words Writing & Language