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

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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

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 Horace Walpole

Here are many plantations surrounded with woods, whence they gather abundance of fruits, as potatoes, bananas, racoven, ananas, and many others.

From The Pirates of Panama or, The Buccaneers of America; a True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main by George Alfred Williams

Sierra Leona abounds in palm-trees, and has some ananas, or pine-apples, with plenty of wood of all sorts, besides having an exceedingly convenient watering-place opposite to the anchorage.

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 Robert Kerr

The plant that produces the pine-apple known as the "ananas," or by the Malays as "nanas," grows literally wild upon the hills on Blakan Mati Island, and other islands round about Singapore.

From Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825 by John Frederick Adolphus McNair