Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A seismic signal associated with magma flow within a volcano and consisting of low frequency seismic waves that appear on a seismogram as a line resembling a screw seen from the side.
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- noun A small
tree , Prosopis pubescens, native toMexico and parts of theUnited States that has spirally twisted pods; the screw bean - noun geology A low-frequency
seismic event associated withvolcanoes
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- noun shrub or small tree of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico having spirally twisted pods
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This is called the "tornillo" (screw), and it is a real corkscrew path, cut out of the mountain side at an angle of about 50 deg., and about 450 feet of a climb.
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Around grew _acacias, mimosas, gleditschias, robinias, algarobias_ -- all the thorny legumes of the world; above towered the splendid _fouquiera_ with spinous stem; there nourished the "tornillo" (_prosopis glandulosa_), with its twisted beans; there the "junco" (_koeblerinia_), whose very leaves are thorns.
The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Mayne Reid 1850
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The horned lizard (_agama cornuta_), the ground rattlesnake, the shell-covered armadillo, and the ever-present coyote, alone inhabit these dry jungles; and now and then the javali (_dicotyles torquatus_), feeding upon the twisted legumes of the "tornillo," passes through their midst; but even these are rare; and the traveller may ride for scores of miles through a Mexican chapparal without encountering aught that lives and moves.
The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Mayne Reid 1850
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These signals may have been related to eruptive activity (amongst others, it included the famous "tornillo" events that Galeras volcano in Colombia is notorious for).
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Erik Klemetti none@example.com 2010
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These signals may have been related to eruptive activity (amongst others, it included the famous "tornillo" events that Galeras volcano in Colombia is notorious for).
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Erik Klemetti none@example.com 2010
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These signals may have been related to eruptive activity (amongst others, it included the famous "tornillo" events that Galeras volcano in Colombia is notorious for).
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Erik Klemetti none@example.com 2010
mollydot commented on the word tornillo
screw
Apretó los tornillos.
August 25, 2008