screw-pine family

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• screw-pine family — noun family of woody plants of the order Pandanales including pandanus • Syn: ↑Pandanaceae, ↑family Pandanaceae • Hypernyms: ↑monocot family, ↑liliopsid family • Member Holonyms: ↑Pandanales, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• screw pine — n. any of a genus (Pandanus) of SE Asian trees and shrubs of the screw pine family, often having edible starchy fruits …   English World dictionary

• screw pine — noun Date: 1836 any of a genus (Pandanus of the family Pandanaceae, the screw pine family) of tropical monocotyledonous Old World trees or shrubs with slender palmlike stems, often huge prop roots, and terminal crowns of swordlike leaves …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• screw-pine — [skro͞o′pīn΄] adj. designating a family (Pandanaceae, order Pandanales) of monocotyledonous trees, shrubs, and climbers, characterized by daggerlike leaves and prop roots * * * …   Universalium

• screw pine — screw′ pine n. pln any tropical Asian tree, shrub, or climbing plant of the family Pandanaceae, having long, narrow, spirally arranged leaves and aerial roots • Etymology: 1830–40 …   From formal English to slang

• screw-pine — [skro͞o′pīn΄] adj. designating a family (Pandanaceae, order Pandanales) of monocotyledonous trees, shrubs, and climbers, characterized by daggerlike leaves and prop roots …   English World dictionary

• screw pine — noun any of various Old World tropical palmlike trees having huge prop roots and edible conelike fruits and leaves like pineapple leaves • Syn: ↑pandanus • Hypernyms: ↑tree • Hyponyms: ↑textile screw pine, ↑lauhala, ↑Pandanus tectorius …   Useful english dictionary

• family Pandanaceae — noun family of woody plants of the order Pandanales including pandanus • Syn: ↑Pandanaceae, ↑screw pine family • Hypernyms: ↑monocot family, ↑liliopsid family • Member Holonyms: ↑Pandanales, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• liliopsid family — noun family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed • Syn: ↑monocot family • Hypernyms: ↑family • Hyponyms: ↑liliid monocot family, ↑Juncaceae, ↑family Juncaceae …   Useful english dictionary

• monocot family — noun family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed • Syn: ↑liliopsid family • Hypernyms: ↑family • Hyponyms: ↑liliid monocot family, ↑Juncaceae, ↑family Juncace …   Useful english dictionary

• List of trees and shrubs by taxonomic family — The following is a list of trees and shrubs of high notoriety. Taxonomic families for the following trees and shrubs are listed in alphabetical order, likewise the genera and closely related species.=GYMNOSPERMS= =CONIFERS= Araucariaceae: The… …   Wikipedia