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proper noun

Pandanus n. (Bot.)

A genus of endogenous plants, native to tropical lands from Africa to Polynesia. See Screw pine.

Fiber from leaves of the pandanus tree; used for woven articles (such as mats).

Any of various Old World tropical palmlike trees having huge prop roots and pineapplelike leaves and edible conelike fruits; also called the screw pine.

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Etymology of 'Pandanus'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pandanus" Quotes from Famous Books

... to the topmost branches, and re-descending to the earth, take fresh root, receive new sustenance, and then remount anew, and at various distances they join themselves to the friendly trunks of their supporting columns, and thus they form very often most beautiful decorations. Varieties of the pandanus are to be seen, of which the leaves, in bunches, start from the ground, forming beautiful sheaves. Enormous ferns were to be met with, real trees in shape, and up which we clambered often, to cut the top branches, for their delicious perfume and which ...

— Adventures in the Philippine Islands • Paul P. de La Gironiere

... struggle reached an enormous pandanus, one of the many-branched screw-pines. It was not a very suitable tree for a signal staff, and there were cocoa palms and others of a far more appropriate kind, but these were unclimbable without notches being prepared for the feet, whereas ...

— Mother Carey's Chicken - Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle • George Manville Fenn

Words linked to "Pandanus" : genus Pandanus, tree, natural fibre, natural fiber, Pandanus tectorius, textile screw pine