Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sweet drink made from the juice of the pineapple.
- noun In tropical countries settled by the Spanish, the name of the pineapple and of various other plants of the family Bromeliaceæ.
- noun The spongy cone of silver left behind, in the treatment of silver amalgam, after all the mercury has been driven off.
- noun Same as
piña-cloth .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The pineapple.
- noun Piña cloth or the fiber of which it is made.
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Examples
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Underneath that big pile of dirt was three tons worth of piña, the fibrous heart of the agave plant, destined to be roasted, fermented and distilled to become California’s first commercial agave distillate.
The mezcalifornia movement: Our first commercial agave spirit is on its way Esther Mobley 2019
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