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ananas

British

/ əˈnænəs /

noun

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

He says Sir Matthew Decker first introduced ananas, p.

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

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

The fruits are the cocoa, areca, banana, papaya, white and red shaddock, mangostan, rambootang, ananas, and betel.

From Old Jack by Kingston, William Henry Giles

Pine apple, ananas, is the queen of Antiguan fruits.

From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous

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