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Meanings of screw pine in English

Catalan
pandanus
Spanish
pandanus

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

        pandanus
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        Examples for "pandanus"
        Examples for "pandanus"
        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
        Usage of screw pine in English
        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...
        3
        (These trees are screw pines.)
        Foul Play
        Translations for screw pine
        Catalan
        pandanus
        Spanish
        pandanus