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Ape vs Ananas - What's the difference?

ape | ananas |

As nouns the difference between ape and ananas

is that ape is apartment while ananas is pineapple.

ape

English

(wikipedia ape)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A primate of the clade Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail.
  • Any such primate other than a human.
  • (derogatory) An uncivilised person.
  • Hyponyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * ape-baboon * ape-bearer * apedom * apehood * apelike * apeling * apely * apeman * apeshit * go ape * naked ape

    Verb

    (ap)
  • To behave like an ape.
  • To imitate; mimic.
  • * 1961 , J. A. Philip, "Mimesis in the Sophistês'' of Plato," ''Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association , vol. 92, p. 454,
  • It is not conceived as a mere “aping ” in externals nor as an enacting in the sense of assuming a foreign role.

    Derived terms

    *

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Wild; crazy.
  • We were ape over the new look.
    He went ape when he heard the bad news.

    See also

    * monkey * troop (collective noun) *

    Anagrams

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    ananas

    English

    Noun

    (ananasses)
  • pineapple
  • 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 ----