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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A native name in tropical America of the pineapple, and of other plants resembling it. The wild ananas of the West Indies is Bromelia Pinguin.
  • noun [capitalized] [NL.] A small genus of tropical plants, belonging to the natural order Bromeliaccæ. A. satira produces the pineapple. Also called Ananassa.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) The pineapple (Ananassa sativa).

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  • noun botany Pineapple

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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

Etymologies

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Either directly from Old Tupi nanas ("excellent fruit"), or from the scientific name thence derived, Ananassa sativa / Ananas comosus, likely under the influence of the many other languages which use the Old Tupi-derived designation ananas for the fruit.

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