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annona
[ uh-noh-nuh ]
noun
- any of various trees and shrubs of the genus Annona, native to tropical America, and grown for their edible fruits.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of annona1
First recorded in 1760–70; from New Latin, from Central American Spanish anona, anon, allegedly from Taíno (Hispaniola) anon
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Example Sentences
If he can not do this, he must feed and fatten 60 pigs with corn (de annona pascit et impinguat 60 porcos).
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You have to prepare the Annona of the sacred City, and to feed the whole people as at one board.
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Sugar Apple, annona squamosa, another genus of the polygynia order, polyandria class.
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Early in its history the annona civica attracted many to Rome in the hope of living there without working.
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But the annona civica was an endowed charity, affecting not a single family, but the whole population.
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