ananas

/ əˈnænəs /

noun

1. the pineapple or a related tropical American bromeliaceous plant, the pinguin, that has an edible plum-shaped fruit

Word History and Origins

Origin of ananas¹

C17: from the native name in Peru

Example Sentences

Pine-apples (Ananas) are not much cultivated on the coast of Peru.

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Nana was the Brazilian name,1550 which the Portuguese turned into ananas.

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For the knitting of the fibers of the ananas for the piña web (called sugot) she gets only an eighth of a real and her food.

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He has, however, given a somewhat better figure of the ananas, which he calls matzatli or pinea Indica251.

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The German gardens in which the ananas was first brought to maturity appear to have been the following.

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