screw pine

American  

noun

1. 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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screw pine British  

noun

1. 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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Etymology

Origin of screw pine

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

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screw pine

Smoked beef cheek dumplings are a house specialty, and the cocktail offerings include the pandan colada, made with brilliant-green screw pine leaves.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2021

No palms have been recognised with certainty, but the genus Pandanus, or screw pine, has been distinctly made out.

From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

It is a mature native-grown specimen, dense in habit, and perfectly semi-spherical in form, and the leaves are arranged in spiral fashion with as much regularity as those of a screw pine.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 by Various

The mid-rib of the screw pine growing in the forests of tropical America furnishes the material of which "Panama" hats are made.

From Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges by Redway, Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw)

For nearly a hundred yards there was a clear stretch of water flowing between low, grassy banks on which were growing a few scattered pandanus-palms—the screw pine.

From "Martin Of Nitendi"; and The River Of Dreams 1901 by Becke, Louis