pandan
Americannoun
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pandans
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a screw pine, Pandanus amaryllifolius, whose fragrant leaves are used for flavoring in Southeast Asian cooking.
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any plant of the genus Pandanus.
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"In a big city, this is the type of thing we should be doing," Marcus says, enjoying samples of pandan and ube cakes.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2026
Staples like pain au chocolat and sandwiches are abundant, but they are also known for Asian-inspired flavours - be it pandan, durian, salted egg, red bean or matcha-filled croissants and pastries.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2025
A few neighborhoods down, at New York City’s first-ever tiramisu cafe, Cafe 2by2, they make a pandan coconut tiramisu cake.
From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2025
He even makes a pandan fried chicken by tying a whole leaf around marinated chicken thighs.
From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2025
Bearing in mind this middle row of spines it is impossible to mistake the leaf of the pandan for that of the pineapple or maguey, which it resembles more or less in form and shape.
From Philippine Mats Philippine Craftsman Reprint Series No. 1 by Hugo H. Miller
Prof. Ugolino Martelli of Florence, Italy, an authority on pandans, considers sabutan to be Pandanus tectorius var. sinensis.
From Philippine Mats Philippine Craftsman Reprint Series No. 1 by Hugo H. Miller
Besides the pandans, the identity of which has been explained above, there are several unidentified specimens or varieties from which mats are made.
From Philippine Mats Philippine Craftsman Reprint Series No. 1 by Hugo H. Miller
Another very prominent feature of pandans is the presence of air or prop roots which grow from the stem above the ground and are helpful to the plant in various ways.
From Philippine Mats Philippine Craftsman Reprint Series No. 1 by Hugo H. Miller
From the pandans we passed to the palms.
From A Visit to Java With an Account of the Founding of Singapore by W. Basil (William Basil) Worsfold
The structure of the pandans presents many exceedingly interesting characteristics well worth noticing.
From Philippine Mats Philippine Craftsman Reprint Series No. 1 by Hugo H. Miller
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