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screw pine

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screw pine

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) 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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screw pine - any of various Old World tropical palmlike trees having huge prop roots and edible conelike fruits and leaves like pineapple leaves

pandanus

genus Pandanus - type genus of the Pandanaceae (as screw pines)

lauhala, Pandanus tectorius, textile screw pine - Polynesian screw pine

tree - a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

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