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ananas - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
noun A native name in tropical America of the pineapple, and of other plants resembling it. The wild ananas of the West Indies is Bromelia Pinguin.
noun [capitalized ] [NL.] A small genus of tropical plants, belonging to the natural order Bromeliaccæ. A. satira produces the pineapple. Also called Ananassa .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun (Bot.) The pineapple (Ananassa sativa ).
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun a genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples)
noun large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated
Etymologies
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Either directly from Old Tupi nanas ("excellent fruit"), or from the scientific name thence derived, Ananassa sativa / Ananas comosus, likely under the influence of the many other languages which use the Old Tupi-derived designation ananas for the fruit.
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Examples
The plant that produces the pine-apple known as the "ananas ," or by the Malays as "nanas," grows literally wild upon the hills on Blakan Mati Island, and other islands round about Singapore.
Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825 W. D. Bayliss 1869
"Italian" Pizza with ananas , beef, bacon and béarnaise sauce the Swedish style will probably live forever.
Canneloni Macaroni mrdantefontana 2010
_ "Boeuf aux ananas , _pineapple_ paupiettes, potage aux ananas," _Antonio continued gloomily.
The Body Ricardo 2010
I'd love to be put into your sample draw please, and in the meantime will go off to the shops this pm and smell ananas fizz...
Pineapple wars: Jean Patou Colony versus the modern world (And a giveaway) Marina Geigert 2009
The luscious ananas keeps going strong even in the drydown, keeping its sunny, tropical own against the nocturnal, brooding note of patchouli.
Perfume Review: Histoires de Parfums 1804 George Sand Marina Geigert 2008
Because it's a rather quiet scent I underestimated it at first, but it's sublime, well balanced, warming and soft, yet light with a little freshness added by the ananas in the top notes - the perfect office scent for me.
Love Not At First Sniff: Anne Pliska, Coco Mademoiselle. Coromandel Marina Geigert 2008
The luscious ananas keeps going strong even in the drydown, keeping its sunny, tropical own against the nocturnal, brooding note of patchouli.
Archive 2008-06-01 Marina Geigert 2008
Look at the preserved fruits, look at the golden ginger, the outspreading ananas , the darling little rogues of China oranges, ranged in the gleaming crystal cylinders.
A Little Dinner at Timmins’s 2006
The little ananas seller, originally uploaded by gobou.
Archive 2006-09-01 Ayala Sender 2006
They always referred to 'pineapples' in Italian as 'pineapples', never as 'ananas ' in the proper Italian way.
languagehat.com: WHEN FRENCH PREFERS ENGLISH. 2004
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