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Pandanus

//pænˈdeɪnəs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of various palm-like plants in the genus Pandanus.

    "A girl of fifteen, perhaps, was plaiting pandanus-leaf to make a hat, and an old woman was sitting on her haunches smoking a pipe."

  2. 2
    any of various Old World tropical palmlike trees having huge prop roots and edible conelike fruits and leaves like pineapple leaves wordnet
  3. 3
    fiber from leaves of the pandanus tree; used for woven articles (such as mats) wordnet

Etymology

From New Latin pandanus, from Malay pandan.

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