When strangers land on the islands, they are first of all received by the sorcerers, sprinkled with water, anointed with oil, and girt with dried pandanus leaves.
All the time a house is tainted with the phong long, a branch of cactus (Euphorbia antiquorum) or pandanus is hung at the door.
Anyhow, he took the greatest care of me, and never allowed me to join the expeditions which sailed twice a year from the island--to Palawan for paddy, and to the north of Borneo with oil and nuts and pandanus mats.
Two cable lengths wide, marked on the north by three separated cocoanuts, and on the south by pandanus trees.
Pandanus grows there, but they can't grow sweet potatoes nor taro.
A few cocoa-nut and pandanus trees, however, grew on it, and a scant herbage.
The next instant they had disappeared; but as she rose on the next swell I again caught sight of the seeming masts, which I gradually discovered to be tall cocoa-nut palms or pandanus trees.
And here, amidst a dense patch of pandanus palms, the path they had followed came to an end.
This barrier was a half circle; the two ends touched the edge of the cliff, and the centre was hidden among the pandanus trees.
This was the manner of the trap: The path down the cliff was between two high walls of rock; at the foot of the cliff was a thick clump of high pandanus trees growing closely together.
In this house, therefore, abode their chief, and he called the whole land Nakauvandra (Pandanus Tree) to be a memorial of the first house built there which was built of pandanus trunks.
The Gilbert Islanders use a butter made of the fruit of the pandanus made fresh every day, and they also give their children young cocoanuts to suck through a hollow rush.
The posts and the beams of this house were all of pandanus trunks.
As the crossing-place was bad in this river the troopers and I crossed to look at the large watercourse; it was running and so full of pandanus that we could not see it well.
Made a delay of twenty minutes from having to go through pandanus and tea-tree scrub, and then over rocks, etc.
Several lizards have also been found in these islands, such as the striped Ablepharus of O Tahaiti, and a small Gecko; a large coal-black lizard was several times seen, but always escaped among the dry pandanus leaves.
The male inflorescence procured from Tanay by the Bureau of Education is similar in appearance to that of Pandanus tectorius and is about 27 centimeters long.
Pandanus luzonensis attains a greater height than Pandanus tectorius, but has narrower leaves than the latter.
It is also called "pandan" but this name should be reserved for Pandanus tectorius.
The flowers of some pandans, especially those of Pandanus tectorius, are extremely fragrant.
Taboan is the name given to Pandanus dubius in Surigao while in Bohol it is known as bacong.
Pandanus tectorius is of considerable importance in nearly all parts of the world where it grows, and it is devoted to most of the uses already noted for pandans in general.
In the Tagalog speaking provinces of Bulacan, Bataan, and in and around Manila, Pandanus luzonensis is called "alasas.
In a walk of half a mile or, at most, a mile along the beach of any of the seacoast provinces in the Philippines, one is almost sure to come across Pandanus tectorius.
Ugolino Martelli of Florence, Italy, an authority on pandans, considers sabutan to be Pandanus tectorius var.
A hut of pandanus had been prepared for me upon the lava by the care of a missionary.
The pandanus furnishes him material for his mats, and of mats he makes his bed, as well as the floor of his house.
They entered, nevertheless, and sat down, leaning their backs against the walls of the pandanus house.
Pele has made of it a heap of ruins; the trees of the mountains have descended toward the sea; the ohia and pandanus are on the shore.
Some of the people live on the shore and make salt, which you see stored up in pandanus bags under the shelter of lava bubbles.
At some distance from Hilo there is a glorious burst of tropical forest, and then the track passes into green grass dotted over with clumps of the pandanus and the beautiful eugenia.
There is another kind, the Pandanus vacoa, the same as is used for making sugar bags in Mauritius, but I have not seen it.
But the wise man, who planted pandanus betimes, now reaps the fruit of his labours; for when the pig makes a rush at his departed spirit, the ghost nimbly swarms up the pandanus tree and so escapes his pursuer.
Of these one of the most celebrated is a certain pandanus tree, at which every ghost must throw the ghost of the real whale's tooth which was placed for the purpose in his hand at burial.
A very favourite trick of theirs is to send him up a pandanus tree to look for fruit.
The houses are raised on piles and the walls are usually constructed ofpandanus leaves, though many natives now make them of boards.
That is why everybody in Maewo likes to plant pandanus trees.
In New Ireland the dead were rolled up in winding-sheets made of pandanus leaves, then weighted with stones and buried at sea.
It is a low, swampy district which a mile inland is raised only 20 or 30 feet above the sea, and is mostly occupied by casuarina and pandanus trees.
Whilst the Pandanus and the Casuarina are most conspicuous amongst the trees, bushes, herbs, grasses and ferns predominate.
We crept in through the low entrance and across a floor of sagging bamboo mats and found ourselves before a curtain of pandanus that hung midway.
A mat of pandanus leaves served for its sail and a paddle of niaouli wood for its helm.
Karaki bore his charge down the beach to the little thatched shelter of pandanus leaves that was all his home.
Hither they repaired in the intervals of lesser lawbreaking and free entertainment, always secure of hearth and shelter where the broad pandanus spread its shingles.
The houses in the village were very similar in appearance to those we had just left, but were roofed with attaps of pandanus leaf.
Beneath the houses are platforms on which the natives keep their store of pandanus and coconuts, their spare pots and baskets, and peculiar bundles of wood.
Women and girls in waistcloths, busy preparing food from pandanus fruit, dropped their work when they caught sight of us, and rushed away for more clothes!
What the sago is to the Papuan, the pandanus is to the Nicobarese, and its luxuriant natural growth renders unnecessary any extensive agricultural labour on his part.
The community was well supplied with food, in the shape of coconuts, bananas, and various tubers, besides possessing a plentiful store of pandanus fruit.
Pulo Milo is only about half a square mile in area, but is thickly covered with a growth of pandanus and coconut trees and jungle, above which hundreds of tall slim palms have forced their heads.
The view from these last was very beautiful: on the one hand a forest of palms, pandanus and casuarina trees, on the other a line of waving grass; and below, the blue sea breaking in snowy rollers on a golden beach.
In Australia we have cut out what may be called the cabbage from the roots of the pandanus leaves, and found it, when boiled, almost as good as a very inferior turnip.
In North Australia the large globular fruit of the water pandanus yields seed round which is a sweet, well-tasted farinaceous pulp, which may not only be eaten by the fish, but by the traveller as well.
The pandanus comes next in importance, being also a food tree; and he, too, does bravely.
The diet is hard; copra and a sweetmeat of pounded pandanus are the only dishes I observed outside the palace; but there seems no defect in quantity, and the king shares with them his turtles.
None appeared to greet or to oppose them; they roamed a while among abandoned huts and empty thickets; then formed two parties and set forth to beat, from end to end, the pandanus jungle of the island.
Pandanus fruit is made, in the Gilberts, into an agreeable sweetmeat, such as a man may trifle with at the end of a long dinner; for a substantial meal I have no use for it.
They were of pandanus wood, oblong in shape, with an effect of pillaring along the sides like straw work, lightly fringed with hair or fibre and standing on four legs.
The grove of pandanuswas practically a thing of the past.
He wore a flesh-coloured vala about the loins, a red pandanus flower in his ear, and a lia-lia of hibiscus blossoms about his neck.
He appeared becomingly attentive, and did me the honour before I began my peroration to change the pandanus flower from the ear next to me to the other.
On a shallow tidal creek a settler had made a corduroy crossing of the fibrous trunks of the Pandanus palms, which the blacks of the neighbourhood turned to account in the capture of fish.
A few yards further back stands a group of Pandanus palms, the van of the dense and intricate jungle covering rock and ridge.
Out of the moist coolness the track abruptly ascends to a pleasant forest, and thence drops almost imperceptibly to tea-tree flats intersected by Pandanus creeks, which bulge here and there into sedge-margined lagoons.
He would have seen that the wind and the waves occasionally tore from his beaches Pandanus palms, and that the matted, fibrous roots thereof floated.
To unaccustomed eyes the Pandanus palm is chief among the noticeable features of the flora of the coast of tropical Queensland.
They are constructed of bamboos, twigs, and rattans, and thatched with leaves of thePandanus laevis, sewed together.
Pandanus laevis--the leaves afford a strong cordage, used for making nets and other purposes.
On the sea-coast there is a species of Pandanus extremely common.
Their only furniture consists of one or two cooking pots, an earthen jar and a mat made of leaves of the Pandanus laevis, which serves to protect them from the rain.
Soon he comes to a spiritual Pandanus at which he must throw the ghost of the whale's tooth which was placed in his hand at time of burial.
The craft is propelled by graceful crescent-shaped lateen sails of pandanus matting and steered by sweeps from the stern.
As soon as they had left the house he flew to Kahuku and adorned his neck with wreaths of the pandanus fruit and his head with the flowers of the sugar cane, thus entirely changing his appearance and making him look like a gray-haired old man.
Several species of pandanus and some tall cocoa-nut trees gave a tropical character to the scenery.
Out of this composition grew tall cocoa-nut trees, and palms, and pandanus trees, besides a variety of shrubs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pandanus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
