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Would a helicopter count as a turboprop? Turbo-blade? :-)

Helo engines are usually referred to as "turboshaft", which aside from
sounding suspiciously like a porn film, is possibly just another name
for a turboprop.

I wonder what the V-22 engines are. Turboprop when facing forward,
turboshaft when facing upward?

Isn't the presence of a transmission in the latter what helps delineate it
from the former?

Turboprops have transmissions also, I'm sure. At least, you'd need to
put some gearing between engine and props.