pandanus
Noun
Meaning
A genus of endogenous plants. See Screw pine.
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An example of a herbal medicine derived from local flora, is a treatment for ear ache made out of a pandanus (pandanus tectorius) tree's root.
Casualties were limited, although tragedy was averted on 23 April 1943, when 680 people took refuge in the concrete walled, pandanus -thatched church.
The estimates of the loss of food producing trees was that 55,672 coconuts trees, 1,633 breadfruit trees and 797 pandanus trees were destroyed on those three islands.
Most houses are made of materials obtained from coconut and pandanus trees.