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screw pine

screw pine noun: pandanus amaryllifolius, species which leaves are used in Southeast Asian cooking, pandan.

screw pine: pandanus amaryllifolius, species which leaves are used in Southeast Asian cooking, pandan
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Noun

screw pine (plural screw pines)

  1. Pandanus amaryllifolius, species which leaves are used in Southeast Asian cooking, pandan
  2. An Old World tropical tree, Pandanus utilis.
  3. (Australia) The tree Pandanus spindalis.

screw pine meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Telugu

screw pine in Hindi

Pandanus spp.
केतकी ketkī, केवड़ा kevṛā

screw pine in Marathi

Pandanus spp.
केतकी ketkī

screw pine in Bengali

Pandanus spp.
কেয়া keẏa, কেওয়া keōẇa, কেওড়া keōṛa

screw pine in Telugu

Pandanus spp.
మొగలిపొద mogalipoda
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screw pine in Gujarati
કેવડો kevḍo
screw pine in Sanskrit
केतक ketaka
screw pine in Tagalog
pandan, alasas, sabutan
screw pine in Arabic
كَاذِيّ kāḏiyy
screw pine in Malay
pandan
screw pine in Indonesian
pandan
screw pine in Persian
گیدی gidi
screw pine in Thai
เตย dtəəi
screw pine in Myanmar
ဆွမ်းမွှေး hcwam:hmwe:, ကွမ်းမွှေး kwam:hmwe:, ဆပ်သွားဖူး hcapswa:hpu:
Dhivehi
ކަށިކެޔޮ kaṣikeyo

Synonyms of screw pine

Forms of screw pine

pluralscrew pines

Origin of screw pine

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.

Questions about screw pine

What does screw pine mean?
Screw pine means pandanus amaryllifolius, species which leaves are used in Southeast Asian cooking, pandan.
What is screw pine in Hindi?
Screw pine in Hindi is केतकी (ketkī), केवड़ा (kevṛā). See Screw pine meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is screw pine?
Screw pine is a noun.
What is the plural of screw pine?
The plural of screw pine is screw pines.

Words near screw pine in the dictionary

  1. screw pegs
  2. screw picket
  3. screw pickets
  4. screw pile
  5. screw piles
  6. screw pine
  7. screw pines
  8. screw pod mesquite
  9. screw pod mesquites
  10. screw pump
  11. screw pumps

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: screw pine (page history and authors); કેવડો (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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