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Pandanus

noun

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 edible conelike fruits and leaves like pineapple leaves. Synonym: screw pine.

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genus Pandanus

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"Pandanus" Quotes from Famous Books

... past,—he enters at length the sheltered lagoon of some coral island, and sees all around the deep green of a tropical vegetation descending in tangled luxuriance to the water's edge,—tall, erect ferns, and creeping lycopodiaceae, and the pandanus, with its aerial roots and its screw-like clusters of narrow leaves, and, high over all, tall palms, with their huge pinnate fronds, and their curiously aggregated groups of massive fruit. And yet the more meagre vegetation of ...

— The Testimony of the Rocks - or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed • Hugh Miller

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