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Meanings of pandanus in English

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панданус
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pandanus
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Genus of plants.

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        pandanus

        Any of various Old World tropical palmlike trees having huge prop roots and edible conelike fruits and leaves like pineapple leaves.

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              Examples for "screw pine"
              Examples for "screw pine"
              1
              What is called the screw pine also sends down shoots in the same way.
              The Wonder Island Boys: Conquest of the Savages
              2
              The Nautilus drew near this island, which I can see to this day with its remarkable fringe of screw pines.
              Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of th...
              Usage of pandanus in English
              1
              Along the edge of the water it has a fringe of pandanus.
              Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria / In searc...
              2
              The tree-ferns-thechamaerops, the pandanus, the araucarias-aremodern representatives of past types.
              The Western World / Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural H...
              3
              Dracenas are good for both sun and shade; so, too, is pandanus.
              The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.
              4
              The grove of pandanus was practically a thing of the past.
              In the South Seas / Being an Account of Experiences and Observat...
              5
              The Marquesans lay comfortably on the seats and bundles, enjoying their pandanus-leaf cigarettes.
              White Shadows in the South Seas
              6
              Straight up the beach to a shack under a pandanus tree Raoul headed.
              South Sea Tales
              7
              Around us, entire extended families were gathered on mats weaved from pandanus leaves.
              The sex lives of cannibals: adrift in the equatorial pacific
              8
              Outer islanders ship woven pandanus products to Tarawa for sale.
              Radio NZ
              9
              A few cocoa-nut and pandanus trees, however, grew on it, and a scant herbage.
              Twice Lost
              10
              We will use dracena, vincas, pandanus, begonia and Wandering Jew.
              The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.
              11
              The glass panels had long since broken and these had been replaced with pandanus leaves.
              The Guardian
              12
              It was high up in a tall pandanus tree, and had a very odd appearance.
              Wanderings among South Sea Savages and in Borneo and the Philipp...
              13
              I lifted (not opened) my Venetian-sashed door of pandanus leaf, and stepped out.
              "Martin of Nitendi"; and The River of Dreams / 1901
              14
              There were claw-scratches on trees and clumps of pandanus trees, whose fruit the lizard prefers.
              Reuters
              15
              I threw off my garment and plunged into a pool under a clump of pandanus-trees.
              Mystic Isles of the South Seas.
              16
              It's a little cove with boulders and pandanus trees to the south of Snapper Rocks.
              The Guardian
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