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Definition of Screw-pine family
1. Noun. Family of woody plants of the order Pandanales including pandanus.
Generic synonyms: Liliopsid Family, Monocot Family
Group relationships: Order Pandanales, Pandanales
Member holonyms: Genus Pandanus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Screw-pine Family
Literary usage of Screw-pine family
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of the Wild and Cultivated Flowering Plants by Chester Arthur Darling (1912)
"Sub-Class I. MONOCOTYLEDONEAE. Monocotyledons. 1 PANDANALES. Screw Pine Order.
s PANDANACEAE. Screw Pine Family. ..."
2. British and Garden Botany: Consisting of Descriptions of the Flowering by Leo Hartley Grindon (1864)
"... such as those of old clay-pits; not very common, though generally distributed.
Fl. July, but very seldom. EB iv. 273. CLXXXIII. THE screw-pine family. ..."
3. The Science of Life; Or, Animal and Vegetable Biology by Joseph Henry Wythe (1880)
"The SCREW-PINE family (Pandanus) contains several species which exhibit a semblance
of instinct in the development of aerial roots at different distances on ..."
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