Noun: ananas
| Singular | ananas |
| Plural | ananases; ananasses |
Sample Sentences
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Witness, thou best Anana, thou the Pride / Of vegetable Life […]. [a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:]
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The Apple Tree delights evry Eye, while the Anana gives no Notice of its future excellence. [1789 December 30, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana:]
Nouns inflected like ananas
databus,
stage bus,
nonplus,
motor bus,
tour bus,
front-side bus,
microbus,
attrition bias,
portculles,
flue gas,
non-plus,
motorbus,
arquebus,
frontside bus,
poison gas,
schoolbus,
as,
commuter bus,
off-gas,
overplus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Italian ananas, from French ananas, from Spanish ananás, from Portuguese ananás, adapted from Old Tupi naná (“pineapple”). See: Italian Nouns '
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Verbs referencing "ananas"
Irish Nouns
anann.