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annona
[ uh-noh-nuh ]
noun
- any of various trees and shrubs of the genus Annona, native to tropical America, and grown for their edible fruits.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of annona1
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Example Sentences
If he can not do this, he must feed and fatten 60 pigs with corn (de annona pascit et impinguat 60 porcos).
You have to prepare the Annona of the sacred City, and to feed the whole people as at one board.
Sugar Apple, annona squamosa, another genus of the polygynia order, polyandria class.
Early in its history the annona civica attracted many to Rome in the hope of living there without working.
But the annona civica was an endowed charity, affecting not a single family, but the whole population.
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