ANANAS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ananas mean? 

• ANANAS (noun)
  The noun ANANAS has 2 senses:

1. 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)

2. large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated

  Familiarity information: ANANAS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANANAS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Ananas; genus Ananas

Hypernyms ("Ananas" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "Ananas"):

Ananas comosus; pineapple; pineapple plant (a tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated in the tropics)

Holonyms ("Ananas" is a member of...):

Bromeliaceae; family Bromeliaceae; pineapple family (a family of tropical American plants of order Xyridales including several (as the pineapple) of economic importance)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

ananas; pineapple

Hypernyms ("ananas" is a kind of...):

edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

Holonyms ("ananas" is a part of...):

Ananas comosus; pineapple; pineapple plant (a tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated in the tropics)