annona
[ uh-noh-nuh ]
noun
any of various trees and shrubs of the genus Annona, native to tropical America, and grown for their edible fruits.
Origin of annona
1First recorded in 1760–70; from New Latin, from Central American Spanish anona, anon, allegedly from Taíno (Hispaniola) anon
- Compare annona family.
Words Nearby annona
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How to use annona in a sentence
If he can not do this, he must feed and fatten 60 pigs with corn (de annona pascit et impinguat 60 porcos).
Domesday Book and Beyond | Frederic William MaitlandYou have to prepare the annona of the sacred City, and to feed the whole people as at one board.
The Letters of Cassiodorus | Cassiodorus (AKA Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator)Sugar Apple, annona squamosa, another genus of the polygynia order, polyandria class.
Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) | AnonymousEarly in its history the annona civica attracted many to Rome in the hope of living there without working.
But the annona civica was an endowed charity, affecting not a single family, but the whole population.
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