ananas

1. 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)

   Synonymsgenus Ananas

   Broadermonocot genus

   Part ofBromeliaceae
2. 2.

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

   Synonymspineapple

   Broaderedible fruit

   Part ofpineapple

Other forms of ananas

plural

ananases·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ananas

What does ananas mean?

ananas means "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)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ananas?

ananas has 3 syllables: a-na-nas. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for ananas?

Close synonyms include genus Ananas, pineapple. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ananas a common word?

ananas is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.