screw pine

See also: screwpine

English

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screw pine

Wikipedia

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Pandanus spiralis

Wikipedia

Wikispecies has information on:

Pandanus utilis

Etymology

From screw +‎ pine: the fruit resembles a pine cone, though the plants are not closely related; and the clustered leaves are thought to resemble a screw.

Pronunciation

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Noun

screw pine (plural screw pines)

1. An Old World tropical tree, Pandanus utilis.
2. (Australia) The tree Pandanus spindalis.
3. Any species in the genus Pandanus

Synonyms

• pandan, pandanus

Translations

Pandanus spp.

Arabic: كَاذِيّ m (kāḏiyy) Burmese: ဆွမ်းမွှေး (my) (hcwam:hmwe:), ကွမ်းမွှေး (kwam:hmwe:), ဆပ်သွားဖူး (my) (hcapswa:hpu:) Chinese: Cantonese: 斑蘭 / 斑兰 (baan1 laan4) Mandarin: 七葉蘭 / 七叶兰 Dhivehi: ކަށިކެޔޮ (kaṣikeyo) Fijian: vadra Finnish: kairapalmu (fi) French: pandanus (fr) German: Schraubenbaum (de) m, Schraubenpalme f Gujarati: please add this translation if you can Hawaiian: hala, pānakana Hindi: please add this translation if you can Indonesian: pandan (id) Kannada: please add this translation if you can Khmer: តើយ (km) (taəy) Latin: pandanus Malagasy: fandrana (mg) Malay: pandan (ms) Malayalam: please add this translation if you can Maori: whara (archaic, obsolete) Ottoman Turkish: كاذی (kazi) Persian: گیدی (fa) (gidi) Polish: pandan m, pochutnik m Portuguese: pândano m Russian: панда́н (ru) m (pandán), панда́нус (ru) m (pandánus) Samoan: fala Sanskrit: केतक (sa) m (ketaka) Shan: ၵဵင်ႁွမ် (shn) (kǎeng hǎum) Tagalog: pandan, alasas, sabutan Tahitian: fara Tamil: please add this translation if you can Telugu: మొగలిపొద (te) (mogalipoda) Thai: เตย (th) (dtəəi) Tulu: please add this translation if you can Yami: ango

References

• “screw pine”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “screw pine”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.