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ananas|əˈneɪnəs, -ˈɑːnəs|
Also anana.
[So in most of the languages of Europe; app. from a native Peruvian name Nanas, it having been first seen by Europeans in Peru, and described under the name Nanas by André Thevenet, a monk, in 1555. Through mistaking the final -s for a plural sign, some have made the sing. anana.]
1. The pine-apple plant (Ananassa sativa) or fruit.
1613Purchas Pilgr. I. v. xii. 431 Of their fruits Ananas is reckoned one of the best: In taste like an Apricocke, in shew a farre off like an Artichoke, but without prickles, very sweet of sent. 1714Mandeville Fab. Bees (1733) II. 219 The first ananas, or pine-apple, that was brought to perfection in England, grew in his [Sir M. Decker's] garden at Richmond. 1727Thomson Summer 685 Witness, thou best anâna, thou the pride Of vegetable life. 1811T. Baldwin (title) Short Practical Directions for the Culture of the Ananas, or Pine-apple Tree. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. II. 229 [Rawleigh] had given..England the Virginian tobacco, and perhaps the delicious ananas.
2. An allied West Indian fruit, the Penguin (Bromelia Pinguin). J. |