Ananas

noun 1. a genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples)

noun 2. large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated

Pineapple.; Bromelia pinguin, a plant with edible fruit.

Etymology: From Italian ananas, from French ananas, from Spanish ananás, from Portuguese ananás, adapted from Old Tupi naná (“pineapple”).

pineapple

Etymology: Introduced into French from settlers visiting the Indies; from Spanish ananás, from Portuguese ananás, from Old Tupi naná (“pineapple”).

pineapple; garden strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa)

Etymology: 16th century, from Middle French ananas and/or Dutch ananas, themselves from Portuguese ananás, from Old Tupi naná. In sense two, an abbreviation of Ananaserdbeere (literally “pineapple strawberry”), translating French fraise ananas.

pineapple

Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Portuguese ananás, from Old Tupi naná (“pineapple”).

pineapple

Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish آناناس, from French ananas, from Spanish ananás, Portuguese ananás, from Old Tupi naná (“pineapple”).

pineapple (plant or fruit of Ananas comosus or, rarely, another member of the genus Ananas)

Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish ananás or Portuguese ananás, ultimately from Old Tupi naná.

pineapple (any plant of the genus Ananas)

Etymology: Internationalism; compare French ananas, German Ananas, Russian анана́с (ananás), ultimately from Old Tupi naná. First attested in 1740.

pineapple

pineapple (fruit, plant)

Etymology: From French ananas, from Spanish ananás, from Portuguese ananás (“pineapple”), from Old Tupi naná (“pineapple”).

pineapple (plant and fruit)

Etymology: From French ananas, from Spanish ananás, from Portuguese ananás, from Old Tupi naná (“pineapple”).

pineapple

Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese ananás, from Old Tupi naná.

pineapple (plant, fruit)

Etymology: Borrowed from French ananas, from Spanish ananás, from Portuguese ananás, from Old Tupi naná (“pineapple”). First attested in 1796.

pineapple

Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish ananás from Portuguese ananás or borrowed directly from Portuguese, from Old Tupi naná (“pineapple”).