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‖ pandanus Bot.|pænˈdeɪnəs|
[mod.L. (G. E. Rumphius Herbarium Amboinense (1743) IV. 139/1), f. Malay pandan.]
A tree or shrub of the genus so called, belonging to the family Pandanaceæ, native to Malaysia, tropical Africa, or Australia, and distinguished by forked trunks with thick aerial roots, long, narrow, prickly leaves arranged in spiral tufts, and large, sometimes edible fruits resembling a pineapple. Also attrib.
[1777: see pandan2] .1830J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 285 The seeds of Pandanus are eatable. 1846L. Leichhardt in J. D. Lang Cooksland 326 The fruit of the pandanus forms another apparently very-much-liked eatable of the natives. 1875I. L. Bird Sandwich Isl. (1880) 86 She wore..a lei of the orange seeds of the pandanus. 1885G. S. Forbes Wild Life Canara 216 Jackals and hyaenas occasionally lurked among the pandanus thickets on the shore. 1908E. J. Banfield Confessions of Beachcomber i. i. 15 Groups of pandanus palms bearing massive orange-coloured fruits. 1915Chambers's Jrnl. Nov. 698/1 A net..is woven from a strong fibre found in a species of pandanus-tree. 1936I. L. Idriess Cattle King xxxvi. 314 Plenty of water there, rock-bound rivers, pandanus-palm creeks, grass, trees, lily-covered lagoons. 1946― In Crocodile Land i. 5 They chopped pandanus nuts for breakfast. 1964R. Perry World of Tiger xv. 231 The palms and pandanus wilderness in southern parts of the Island [sc. Java]. 1971World Archaeol. III. 140 Unworked river pebbles, used for such purposes as breaking bones and crushing pigments or pandanus nuts. 1977Bulletin (Sydney) 22 Jan. 65/1 The spindly eucalypts and pandanus palms in the Alligator River district were filled with the rasping shriek of millions of cicadas and crickets.
2. The fibre produced from pandanus leaves or the material woven from it. Also attrib.
1894Outing (U.S.) XXIV. 354/2 On the pandanus-leaf mats. 1930M. Mead Growing up in New Guinea ix. 156 A pandanus rain mat is a clumsy thing to carry about. 1963House & Garden Feb. 61/2 Storage unit..teak, with pandanus grasscloth doors. 1971Daily Tel. 23 Dec. 3/7 The children [of Pitcairn Island] will have found their presents in pandanus-leaf baskets suspended by the front porch or above their beds. 1972M. Sheppard Taman Indera 141 The floor is hard and smooth and there is usually a low platform at one end on which spectators can sit, cross-legged, on pandanus mats. 1974Nat. Geographic Dec. 778/1 The scene was one from yesterday—the pandanus-thatched houses under the palms, the circle of grinning, tattooed men. |