单词 | pandan |
释义 | pandann. A tree or shrub of the genus Pandanus (or, occasionally, of another genus of the family Pandanaceae); a screw pine. Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > [noun] > screw-pines pandan1770 pandanus1770 screw pine1789 lauhala1815 hala1822 chandelier tree1830 screw palm1833 tent-tree1884 pandanad1892 1770 J. Banks Jrnl. Mar. in Endeavour Jrnl. (1962) II. 216 They also have a mixture of..these flowers and leaves of a plant Calld Pandang (Pandanus [odorus]) choppd small, with which they fill their hair and clothes. 1777 G. Forster Voy. round World I. 270 The pandang or palm-nut tree had given its long prickly leaves to thatch the roofs of the buildings. 1783 W. Marsden Hist. Sumatra 87 Of the pandan, which is a shrub with very long prickly leaves, like those of the pine apple or aloe, there are many varieties. 1858 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 28 300 The cabbage tree that here grows on the skirts of forests very much resembles the pandan, so often met with in analogous positions in the East Indies. 1887 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 16 226 The mat and betel boxes are made from the bleached inner portion of the pandan leaf. 1954 R. E. Holttum Plant Life Malaya ii. 23 Pandans have much in common with palms. 1989 L. Cronin Conc. Austral. Flora 255 Freycinetia excelsa... A long, slender, woody, climbing pandan. 1993 Gourmet Jan. 93/1 Piles of pandan leaves and banana leaves surround us. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1770 |
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