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

Cocoa-nuts, plantains, bananas, pineapples, ananas and other tropical fruits grow abundantly.

From The Mayas, the Sources of Their History Dr. Le Plongeon in Yucatan, His Account of Discoveries by Salisbury, Stephen

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

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 Kerr, Robert