Ananas

Ultimately from Old Tupi naná.

Ananas m

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

• (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

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

• Ananassa
• Pseudananas
• Bromelia ananas

• Ananas on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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• Category: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 National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Ananas at The Plant List

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.na.nas/

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• Hyphenation: A‧na‧nas

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.

     The types of Ananas. The plant. One knows over 15 types of Ananas.

2. (Austria) garden strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa)

   Synonym: Gartenerdbeere

• Ananasfrucht
• Ananasgewächs
• Ananaspflanze
• Ananassaft
• Ananasschneider

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

• annanas (Veldeke spelling)
• Annanass (Eupen, spelling)
• Ane̩nas (Rheinische Dokumenta spelling)
  • annenas (Veldeke spelling)

Borrowed from Middle French ananas, from Spanish ananás, from Portuguese ananás, adapted from Old Tupi naná.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.na.nas/, [ˈɑ.nɑ.nɑs]

Ananas f (plural Ananasse or Ananase̩) (German-based spelling, Rheinische Dokumenta spelling)

1. pineapple

• IPA^(key): /ˈananas/, [ˈɑnɑnɑs]

Ananas m or f (plural Ananassen or Ananas)

1. pineapple