GENUS PANDANUS

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Meaning:

Type genus of the Pandanaceae (as screw pines)

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Pandanus" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "genus Pandanus"):

pandanus; screw pine (any of various Old World tropical palmlike trees having huge prop roots and edible conelike fruits and leaves like pineapple leaves)

Holonyms ("genus Pandanus" is a member of...):

family Pandanaceae; Pandanaceae; screw-pine family (family of woody plants of the order Pandanales including pandanus)

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