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- noun A large
Brazilian pineapple .
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Examples
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Descascar abacaxi peeling a pineapple Resolving a thorny problem.
Why I Love That Country Benjamin Moser 2012
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What to eat: The sanduiche de pernil com abacaxi pork sandwich with pineapple, pictured is the classic.
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Walking back to our hotel from lunch one day, abacaxi com hortela in hand, we heard drums beating, and ventured down a side street to investigate.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Rebecca Dube 2010
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I still don't know how to properly pronounce abacaxi, but I ordered that sweet nectar all over town.
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I still don't know how to properly pronounce abacaxi, but I ordered that sweet nectar all over town.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Rebecca Dube 2010
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We meant to get there, of course, but there was always a bloco to join, or a sunset to watch, or an abacaxi com hortela to drink.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Rebecca Dube 2010
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We meant to get there, of course, but there was always a bloco to join, or a sunset to watch, or an abacaxi com hortela to drink.
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Walking back to our hotel from lunch one day, abacaxi com hortela in hand, we heard drums beating, and ventured down a side street to investigate.
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Pointing to the first item on the first menu board I came to, I got an abacaxi com hortela - a concoction of pineapple and mint.
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Pointing to the first item on the first menu board I came to, I got an abacaxi com hortela - a concoction of pineapple and mint.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Rebecca Dube 2010
avivamagnolia commented on the word abacaxi
~ pineapple, common name for one member of and for the Bromeliaceae, a family of chiefly epiphytic herbs and small shrubs native to the American tropics and subtropics. The spiny leaves of various species of the genus Ananas yield a hard fiber called gravata in South America and piña, or pineapple cloth, in the Philippines. A. sativa is the cultivated pineapple. The fruit, whose spiny skin is yellowish brown when ripe, is sweet and juicy; it is topped by a distinctive rosette of green leaves. It is grown throughout warmer regions. Thailand, the Philippines, and Brazil are the largest producers of canned pineapple. A compound derived from pineapple, branelain, is used as an anti-inflammatory. Species of Ananas, Tillsandia, and other genera are sometimes cultivated as ornamentals. Spanish moss Spanish moss, fibrous grayish-green epiphyte (Tillandsia usneoides) that hangs on trees of tropical America and the Southern states, also called Florida, southern, or long moss.
Many epiphytic bromeliads, growing in moist tropical American forests, have become highly modified for retaining water between rainfalls. The pineapple family is classified in the division Magnoliophyta Magnoliophyta (măg'n�?lē�?f`ətə)
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January 18, 2009