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单词 pina
释义

pinan.

Brit. /ˈpɪnjə/, /ˈpiːnə/, U.S. /ˈpinjə/
Forms: 1500s 1700s pinna, 1500s– pina, 1600s pinia, 1600s pinne, 1800s piña.
Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymons: Spanish piña, pinna.
Etymology: < Spanish piña (1519 in sense 1a, 1590 in sense 2 in the passage translated in quot. 1604 at sense 2, c1754 or earlier in a Philippine source in sense 1b; also as †pinna), transferred use of piña pine cone, pine nut (c1250 as †pinna ) < classical Latin pīnea (see pine n.2).
1.
a. A pineapple. Now only in the names of dishes or drinks having pineapple as an ingredient (cf. piña colada n.).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > tropical exotic fruit > pineapple
pina1572
pine1587
ananas1613
pineapple1624
king pine1657
crown1683
1572 H. Hawks in Writings & Corr. Two R. Hakluyts (1935) 101 There are many kinde of fruits in the Countrey, which are very good, as Plantans, Sapotes. Guiaves, Pinas, Alvacatas.
1596 W. Raleigh Discoverie Guiana (new ed.) 61 Great abundance of Pinas, the princesse of fruits that grow under the sun.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. ii. iii. 101 In America..their meat Palmitos, Pinas, potatos, &c. & such fruits.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo ii. 148, in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors The Portuguez, who met with this fruit first in Brasil, called it Pinas.]
1963 News Herald (Mansfield, Ohio) 10 Apr. 10/1 (heading) Chicken pina is Easter delicacy.
1976 Advocate (Newark, Ohio) 27 Dec. 6/2 Whip up a Pina Pavlova and then sit back and listen to the ‘ahs’ of appreciation.
b. Pineapple leaf fibre; cloth made from this (cf. pina cloth n., pina muslin n. at Compounds).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from other vegetable fibres > [noun] > made from pineapple (leaf) fibres
pina1847
pineapple cloth1849
pina muslin1851
pina cloth1856
1847 R. Fortune Three Years' Wanderings China xviii. 333 The beautiful cloth generally known by the name of Pinia, which is made from the fibre of the pine-apple plant.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Pina, pine-apple leaf fibres.
1898 Nebraska State Jrnl. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 18 Dec. 19/5 Quaint but elegant robes of silk and grass-cloth pinas.
1967 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 10 Dec. 14/4 The cloth in its finished state was called ‘pina’.
2003 Philippine Daily Inquirer (Nexis) 12 Sept. 1 The fabrics they carry such as cotton, linen, pina and wool blend are made of ‘natural’ fibers.
2. A spongy, typically conical mass of silver produced by the partial expulsion of mercury from an amalgam. Also: an amalgam from which mercury is to be removed. Obsolete.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > alloy > [noun] > mercury alloys or amalgam > soft or spongy
amalgam1471
pina1604
gold amalgam1795
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iv. xii. 245 They put all the mettall into a cloth, which they straine out very forcibly, so as all the quicke-silver passeth out..and the rest remaines as a loafe of silver, like to a marke of almonds pressed to draw oyle. And being thus pressed, the remainder containes but the sixt part in silver, and five in mercurie... Of these markes they makes pinnes [Sp. piñas], (as they call them,) like pine apples, or sugar loaves, hollow within, the which they commonly make of a hundred pound weight.
1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World vii. 227 750 pieces of Eight weight in Pinna or virgin silver.
1780 J. T. Dillon Trav. Spain 247 Then the imperceptible atoms of silver, escape from their confinement, are collected by the quicksilver, which amalgamates with them, and form that substance or paste the Mexicans call pina.]
1884 Sci. Amer. Suppl. 11 Oct. 7306/3 The amalgam is run out through the stop-cock at bottom of the vat, is washed, and is put into hydraulic presses, by means of which the mercury is squeezed out, leaving behind a thick, pulpy mass, composed mainly of silver, and locally termed a ‘piña’.

Compounds

pina cloth n. a fine fabric made from pineapple leaf fibre.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from other vegetable fibres > [noun] > made from pineapple (leaf) fibres
pina1847
pineapple cloth1849
pina muslin1851
pina cloth1856
1856 J. Thomas et al. Lippincott's Pronouncing Gazetteer 1789/2 Making twine from pine-apple fibres, which is exported to China for fabrication into pina cloth.
1938 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 2 Sept. 12/2 Pineapple fiber was once used on the Pacific Islands to make the soft textile known as pina cloth.
1985 J. W. Purseglove Trop. Crops: Monocotyledons 77 The leaves yield 2–3 per cent of a strong white silky fibre.., which is used for making a fine fabric called piña cloth.
pina muslin n. = pina cloth n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from other vegetable fibres > [noun] > made from pineapple (leaf) fibres
pina1847
pineapple cloth1849
pina muslin1851
pina cloth1856
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. IV. 1344/1 Embroidered Piña muslin dress from the Phillippine Islands... 2 Embroidered piña muslin handkerchiefs.
1877 Johnson's New Universal Cycl. III. 1255/2 Pina Muslin, a very valuable and costly fabric made in Manila from the fibre of pineapple leaves.
1913 Newark (Ohio) Advocate 5 Dec. 4/7 The fiber of the leaves is often woven into delicate and beautiful fabrics. That of the Philippines is called Pina muslin.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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