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 ).
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- noun botany
Pineapple
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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Examples
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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
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"Italian" Pizza with ananas, beef, bacon and béarnaise sauce the Swedish style will probably live forever.
Canneloni Macaroni mrdantefontana 2010
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_ "Boeuf aux ananas, _pineapple_ paupiettes, potage aux ananas," _Antonio continued gloomily.
The Body Ricardo 2010
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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The little ananas seller, originally uploaded by gobou.
Archive 2006-09-01 Ayala Sender 2006
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They always referred to 'pineapples' in Italian as 'pineapples', never as 'ananas' in the proper Italian way.
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