ananas

British  

/ əˈnænəs /

noun

1. the pineapple or a related tropical American bromeliaceous plant, the pinguin, that has an edible plum-shaped fruit

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Etymology

Origin of ananas

C17: from the native name in Peru

Example Sentences

Made with 1,100 pounds of butter and topped with strawberries, tangerines, peaches and ananas, the world’s largest fruitcake won The Guinness World Record on May 24, 2014.

From Time • Jun. 12, 2014

Farewell, old Scotia's bleak domains, Far dearer than the torrid plains, Where rich ananas blow!

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

Pine apple, ananas, is the queen of Antiguan fruits.

From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous

I. Farewell, old Scotia’s bleak domains, Far dearer than the torrid plains Where rich ananas blow!

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

The gap is as from an ananas to a Turnip.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary