tornillo
Americannoun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of tornillo
1835–45, < Spanish: screw, clamp, equivalent to torn ( o ) lathe, gyration (< Latin tornus lathe < Greek tórnos ) + -illo diminutive suffix (< Latin -illum )
Example Sentences
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After a long walk through the cool of the Cutivireni forest, past towering tornillo trees and mashonastes with their great buttressed trunks, dangling orchids and tree ferns – suddenly, a clearing.
From The Guardian • Nov. 6, 2019
Loggers were interested in the mahogany, oak and tornillo trees that grow to impressive heights in this part of the rainforest around Cutivireni in central Peru.
From The Guardian • Nov. 6, 2019
It captures the mesquite and cat-claw thickets of tornillo bushes and encounters with the “wild and wooly” cow men of Roswell and Carlsbad.
From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2014
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