ananas

British  

/ əˈnænəs /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of ananas

C17: from the native name in Peru

Example Sentences

Made with 1,100 pounds of butter and topped with strawberries, tangerines, peaches and ananas, the world’s largest fruitcake won The Guinness World Record on May 24, 2014.

From Time • Jun. 12, 2014

They now afford plenty of rice, flour, Tartarian wheat, oranges, lemons, citrons, bananas, ananas or pine-apples, ignames, batatas, melons, cucumbers, pompions, garden and wild figs, and several other sorts of fruits.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. by Kerr, Robert

The gap is as from an ananas to a Turnip.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary

My very curious picture of Rose, the royal gardener, presenting the first ananas to Charles II. proves the culture here earlier by several years.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Walpole, Horace

I. Farewell, old Scotia’s bleak domains, Far dearer than the torrid plains Where rich ananas blow!

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert