Ananas

See also: ananas, anánas, ananás, and ananas'

Translingual

Ananas nanus

Etymology

From Old Tupi nanas (“excellent fruit”).

Proper noun

Ananas m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Bromeliaceae – pineapple and similar plants.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Plantae - kingdom; Viridiplantae - subkingdom; Streptophyta - infrakingdom; Embryophyta - superphylum; Tracheophyta - phylum; Spermatophytina - subphylum; angiosperms, monocots, commelinids - clades; Poales - order; Bromeliaceae - family; Bromelioideae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Ananas ananassoides, Ananas bracteatus, Ananas comosus, Ananas fritzmuelleri, Ananas lucidus, Ananas microcephalus, Ananas nanus, Ananas parguazensis - species

Derived terms

• Ananassa
• Pseudananas
• Bromelia ananas

References

• Ananas on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ananas on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Ananas on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Ananas at USDA Plants database
• Ananas at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Ananas at the Catalogue of Life 
• Ananas at Encyclopedia of Life
• Ananas at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Ananas at The Plant List

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German

Etymology

16th century, from Middle French ananas and/or Dutch ananas, themselves from Portuguese ananás, from Old Tupi nana.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.na.nas/

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• Hyphenation: A‧na‧nas

Noun

Ananas f (genitive Ananas, plural Ananas or Ananasse)

1. pineapple
   • 1839, Jakob Ernst von Reider, Die treue Kundgebung des Geheimnisses, Augsburg, page 16:

     Die Arten der Ananas. Die Pflanze. Man kennt über 15 Arten Ananas.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

2. (Austria) strawberry

Declension

Declension of Ananas [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Ananas	die	Ananas, Ananasse
genitive	einer	der	Ananas	der	Ananas, Ananasse
dative	einer	der	Ananas	den	Ananas, Ananassen
accusative	eine	die	Ananas	die	Ananas, Ananasse

Derived terms

• Ananasfrucht
• Ananasgewächs
• Ananaspflanze
• Ananassaft
• Ananasschneider

Further reading

• “Ananas” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Ananas” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Ananas” in Duden online
• Ananas on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

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Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈananas/, [ˈɑnɑnɑs]

Noun

Ananas m (plural Ananassen)

1. pineapple