Ananas vs Pineapples - What's the difference?
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??Ananas''' ().?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.?[¶]?'''1613''' Purchas ''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.?'''1714''' Mandeville ''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.?'''1727''' Thomson ''Summer'' 685 Witness, thou best anâna, thou the pride Of vegetable Life.?'''1811''' T. Baldwin (''title'') Short Practical Directions for the Culture of the Ananas, or Pine-apple Tree.?'''1841''' D’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. * “
As nouns the difference between ananas and pineapples
is that ananas is pineapple while pineapples is plural of lang=en.ananas
English
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(ananasses)References
* “Ananas]” listed on page 306 of volume I (A–B) of '' [1st ed., 1885]
??Ananas''' ().?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.?[¶]?'''1613''' Purchas ''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.?'''1714''' Mandeville ''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.?'''1727''' Thomson ''Summer'' 685 Witness, thou best anâna, thou the pride Of vegetable Life.?'''1811''' T. Baldwin (''title'') Short Practical Directions for the Culture of the Ananas, or Pine-apple Tree.?'''1841''' D’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. * “
ananas]” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989 ----
