screw pine

See also: screwpine

English

screw pine (Pandanus utilis)

Wikispecies

Etymology

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.

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
• 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.
• “screw pine”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.