screw pine

See also: screwpine

English

screw pine

Wikispecies

Etymology

screw +‎ pine: the fruit resembles a pine cone, though the plants are unrelated; and the clustered leaves are thought to resemble a screw.

Noun

screw pine (plural screw pines)

1. An Old World tropical tree,
2. Any species in the genus Pandanus

Translations

tree

• Dhivehi: ކަށިކެޔޮ (kaṣikeyo)
• Finnish: kairapalmu (fi)
• Hawaiian: pānakana
• Sanskrit: केतक (sa) m (ketaka)
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• Tagalog: alasas, sabutan
• Telugu: మొగలిపొద (te) (mogalipoda)
• Yami: ango

References

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