Definition of Pandanaceae

1. Noun. Family of woody plants of the order Pandanales including pandanus.

Exact synonyms: Family Pandanaceae, Screw-pine Family
Generic synonyms: Liliopsid Family, Monocot Family
Group relationships: Order Pandanales, Pandanales
Member holonyms: Genus Pandanus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pandanaceae

Panax ginseng
Panax pseudoginseng
Panax quinquefolius
Panax schinseng
Panay
Pancake Day
Pancake Tuesday
Panchagarh District
Panchatantra
Panchen Lama
Panchen Lamas
Pancho Villa
Pancoast's suture
Pancoast syndrome
Pancyprian
Pandanaceae (current term)
Pandanales
Pandanus
Pandanus tectorius
Pandarus
Pandavas
Pandean
Pandeth
Pandion
Pandion haliaetus
Pandionidae
Pandora
Pandora's box
Pandora's boxes
Pandoran

Literary usage of Pandanaceae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"Lianes of the Rain-Forest. Palm-lianes. Scrambling bamboos. Root-climbers. Cyclanthaceae and Pandanaceae. Araceae. Their absorbing and attaching roots. ..."

2. The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands by Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1913)
"The Pandanaceae are especially rich in the Malayan region, in Micronesia, in Madagascar, ... The Pandanaceae are related to the Palms and Araceae. ..."

3. The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands by Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1913)
"Pandanaceae The family Pandanaceae is peculiar to the tropical regions of the ... The Pandanaceae are especially rich in the Malayan region, in Micronesia, ..."

4. Morphology of Angiosperms: (Morphology of Spermatophytes. Part II) by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1903)
"The Pandanaceae (about 80 species), or screw- pines, belong to the oriental ... Such flowers as those of the Pandanaceae and Typhaceae are extremely simple, ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1901)
"In the part devoted to Pandanaceae there are, in addition to the ordinary illustrations, four full-page 'half-tone' plates from photographs showing the ..."

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