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screw palms

screw palms is the plural of screw palm.

Meaning of screw palm

Noun

screw palm (plural screw palms)

  1. The tree Pandanus spindalis, of tropical northern Australia.
    • A chain of lagoons beautiful with pink and blue water-lilies and noisy with wild duck broke the monotony of the river’s long, dark pools lined with tall cadjuput, Leichhardt pine, and screw palm.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 49

Questions about screw palms

What is screw palms the plural of?
Screw palms is the plural of screw palm.

Words near screw palms in the dictionary

  1. screw nail
  2. screw nails
  3. screw off
  4. screw over
  5. screw palm
  6. screw palms
  7. screw peg
  8. screw pegs
  9. screw picket
  10. screw pickets
  11. screw pile

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