screw-pine family

Definitions of screw-pine family
  1. noun
    family of woody plants of the order Pandanales including pandanus
    synonyms: Pandanaceae, family Pandanaceae
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    type of:
    liliopsid family, monocot family
    family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed
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