ananas comosus

1. 1.

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

   Synonymspineapplepineapple plant

   Broaderherb

   Part ofAnanas

   Partspineapple

Questions about ananas comosus

What does ananas comosus mean?

ananas comosus means "a tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated in the tropics".

What is another word for ananas comosus?

Close synonyms include pineapple, pineapple plant. 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 comosus a common word?

ananas comosus 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.