screw pine
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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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 ScherzerContrasting with this humble grass, observe that luxuriant Screw-pine.
Omphalos | Philip Henry GosseThe 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. RedwayThe material used is toquilla straw, the mid-rib of the screw-pine (Carlodovica palmata).
Commercial Geography | Jacques W. RedwayThe 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
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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