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ananas

/ əˈnænəs /

noun

  1. the pineapple or a related tropical American bromeliaceous plant, the pinguin, that has an edible plum-shaped fruit
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of ananas1

C17: from the native name in Peru
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Example Sentences

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

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

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.

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

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

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