screw pine

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noun

any tropical Asian tree or shrub of the genus Pandanus, having a palmlike or branched stem, long, narrow, rigid, spirally arranged leaves and aerial roots, and bearing an edible fruit.

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Origin of screw pine

First recorded in 1830–40

Words nearby screw pine

screw nail, screw nut, screw-off, screw-on, screw pile, screw pine, screwplate, screw press, screw propeller, screw someone out of, screw tap

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How to use screw pine in a sentence

Most of these parasols, prepared from the leaves of the screw-pine, are imported hither from China.
Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II|Karl Ritter von Scherzer
Contrasting with this humble grass, observe that luxuriant Screw-pine.
Omphalos|Philip Henry Gosse
The mid-rib of the screw pine growing in the forests of tropical America furnishes the material of which "Panama" hats are made.
Commercial Geography|Jacques W. Redway
The material used is toquilla straw, the mid-rib of the screw-pine (Carlodovica palmata).
Commercial Geography|Jacques W. Redway

The orang had grasped a screw-pine, and he held on, but he struggled no more.
Four Young Explorers|Oliver Optic

British Dictionary definitions for screw pine

screw pine

noun

any of various pandanaceous plants of the Old World tropical genus Pandanus, having a spiral mass of pineapple-like leaves and heavy conelike fruits

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