ananas

Meanings

nounananas (plural ananases or ananasses)

plural ananases · plural ananasses · alternative anana

archaic or non-native speakers' EnglishPineapple.
Witness, thou best Anana, thou the Pride / Of vegetable Life […].
a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC
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The Apple Tree delights evry Eye, while the Anana gives no Notice of its future excellence.
1789 December 30, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana
rare or non-native speakers' EnglishBromelia pinguin, a plant with edible fruit.
Synonyms: pinguin

nounBromelia pinguin, a plant with edible fruit.

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nounlarge sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated

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edible fruit

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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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

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