Ananas

//əˈneɪnəs// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Pineapple.

    "Witness, thou best Anana, thou the Pride / Of vegetable Life […]."

  2. 2
    large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated wordnet
  3. 3
    Bromelia pinguin, a plant with edible fruit.

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pineappleberryfruitgenus ananasorangepineapple

Example

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""Sir, we've found this and we needed you to name it." "Pineapple." "But we figured we might just as well call it "ananas" since the majority of the world refers to it as—" "Pineapple." "But sir—" "Pine. Apple.""

Etymology

From Italian ananas, from French ananas, from Spanish ananás, from Portuguese ananás, adapted from Old Tupi naná (“pineapple”).

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