screw pine

See also: screwpine

English

screw pine (Pandanus utilis)

Etymology

From 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.

Pronunciation

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Noun

screw pine (plural screw pines)

1. Any species in the genus Pandanus
   1. Pandanus amaryllifolius, species which leaves are used in Southeast Asian cooking, pandan
   2. An Old World tropical tree, Pandanus utilis.
   3. (Australia) The tree Pandanus spindalis.

Synonyms

• pandan, pandanus

Translations

Pandanus spp.

• Arabic: كَاذِيّ m (kāḏiyy)
• Bengali: কেয়া (keẏa), কেওয়া (keōẇa), কেওড়া (keōṛa)
• 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: केतकी (hi) f (ketkī), केवड़ा (hi) m (kevṛā)
• 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
• Māori: whara (archaic, obsolete), rauhara
• Marathi: केतकी f (ketkī)
• Mauritian Creole: vakwa
• Persian: گیدی (fa) (gidi)
• Polish: pandan m, pochutnik m
• Portuguese: pândano m
• Réunion Creole French: vakoi, vakwa
• Russian: панда́н (ru) m (pandán), панда́нус (ru) m (pandánus)
• 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
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: كاذی (kazi)

• Ulithian: faach
• Yami: ango

References

• “screw pine”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “screw pine”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.