screw pine

Wikispecies

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.

screw pine (plural screw pines)

1. An Old World tropical tree, Pandanus utilis.
2. (Australia) The tree Pandanus spindalis.
3. Any species in the genus Pandanus

• pandan, pandanus

• “screw pine”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “screw pine”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.