piña
Americannoun
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piñas
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The most important part of the plant is the heart, known as the piña because it resembles a giant pineapple.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
The whirring piña colada machine tempted me, but at $15 a glass, it would quickly drain my budget.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
And every weekend they’d dine at Casa Gambino, a classic Mexican restaurant with vinyl booths, piña coladas and a bison head mounted on the wall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025
All-inclusive vacations can conjure images of food under heat lamps, too many poolside piña coladas, and being trapped on resort grounds.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2024
She made desserts for everyone in our village—dulce de camote con piña, empanadas de guayaba, palanquetas de cacahuate.
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
The piñas must get to a pressure cooker within 24 hours, where the sugars can be extracted.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
They then load the piñas into a truck for roasting, which can take another week once the subterranean oven is constructed.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2023
Woolf is doing all this planting with hopes that someone else will build a commercial plant to cut, heat and extract juice from that many piñas, because none currently exists in California.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2023
In time, the piñas are tossed into baskets carried by mules, loaded onto trucks and driven to the factory.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2022
But you have bought those cambrics by the piece, and also piñas, thin, gossamer fabrics, of all degrees of color and beauty, sometimes with pattern flounces,—do you hear?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 by Various
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