| Noun | 1. | screw-pine family - family of woody plants of the order Pandanales including pandanus liliopsid family, monocot family - family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed order Pandanales, Pandanales - families Typhaceae; Sparganiaceae; Pandanaceae genus Pandanus - type genus of the Pandanaceae (as screw pines) |