0 a tropical tree whose leaves are used in cooking to give a flavour similar to vanilla (= a sweet spice), and can also be used to make floor coverings, rope, etc.:
The aromatic pandan grows abundantly in the Philippines.
Pandans or screw pines are not closely related to palm trees.
Common ingredients in Penang cooking include pungent roots like galangal and turmeric and aromatic leaves like pandan.
The menu includes a few Thai dishes, such as pandan chicken.
The weavers produce basic pandan mats or roll the leaves into pandan ropes.
Nematodes were recovered from all of the habitats sampled, with the exception of 'pandan' (table 3).
Traditionally fragrant pandan leaves were added, but now often artificial vanilla powder is used.
