Crossword clues for pandanus
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pandanus \Pan*da"nus\, prop. n. [NL., fr. Malay pandan.] (Bot.) A genus of endogenous plants, native to tropical lands from Africa to Polynesia. See Screw pine.
2. Fiber from leaves of the pandanus tree; used for woven articles (such as mats). [wns16=1]
3. Any of various Old World tropical palmlike trees having huge prop roots and pineapplelike leaves and edible conelike fruits; also called the screw pine. [wns16=2]
Wiktionary
n. The screw pine, (taxlink Pandanus utilis species noshow=1).
WordNet
n. fiber from leaves of the pandanus tree; used for woven articles (such as mats)
any of various Old World tropical palmlike trees having huge prop roots and edible conelike fruits and leaves like pineapple leaves [syn: screw pine]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "pandanus".
They descended the steep ridge to the gentler slopes below and made their way slowly along, skirting the dense thickets of pandanus and rata trees, and crossing glades where the interlaced foliage, high overhead, cut off the faint light of the afterglow, making the darkness below almost that of night.
Along the seaward-facing edge of the plateau clusters of pandanus palms, with their ripe, red fruit, waved their feathery banners to the breeze.
Beyond the crowns of the murmuring palms, and the wide outspreading branches of the tamanu and breadfruit and pandanus trees, lay the blue, heaving bosom of the Pacific.
For this they used the stiff leaves of the pandanus or screw-palm, which grew on the island in profusion, and yielded, in addition to its strong, useful timber and leaves, quantities of rich yellow fruit.
Built of the timber of breadfruit and toa, and thatched beautifully with the russet-coloured leaves of the pandanus palm, oblong in shape, they bore an almost exact resemblance, inside and out, to the dwellings in Tahiti and Tubuai.
Surely a footstep rustled the dead pandanus leaves that lay along the path?
Nothing broke the stillness but the murmuring hum of the surf, and the strange weird rustle of the wind as it soughed through the groves of pandanus and coco-palms.
Almost as soon as he left the path, he lost his direction in the densely packed pandanus and pisonia trees, and was floundering up to his knees in the sandy soil that the muttonbirds had riddled with their burrows.
Around them was a shambles of wires and broken instrument racks, impaled by the branch of a pandanus tree that had come straight through the roof.
The houses are raised on piles and the walls are usually constructed of pandanus leaves, though many natives now make them of boards.
A very favourite trick of theirs is to send him up a pandanus tree to look for fruit.
New Ireland the dead were rolled up in winding-sheets made of pandanus leaves, then weighted with stones and buried at sea.
Some two thousand canes of these raufara, as they were called, each of them holding about forty pandanus leaves, were needed for the thatching of each dwelling.
A quarter of a mile south of the settlement, in the midst of the forest, an old pandanus tree spread its thorny leaves to the sun.
He glanced aloft at the pandanus tree and down at the bundles of leaves on the ground.