Meaning

Archaic form of pineapple..

Example Sentences

Ananas, or Pine-Apple, the moſt admired for Taſte.

The organs that are gratified with the taſte of ſickly veal bled into a palſy, crammed fowls, and dropſical brawn, peaſe without ſubſtance, peaches without taſte, and pine-apples without flavour, will certainly nauſeate the native, genuine, and ſalutary taſte of Welch beef, Banſtead mutton, and barn-door fowls, whoſe juices are concocted by a natural digeſtion, and whoſe fleſh is conſolidated by free air and exerciſe.

The cajue, the jabuticaba, the araticu, and the mangaba fruits are common; also oranges, limes, bananas, pine-apples, and water-melons.

[…] I bought a pine-apple at the same time, which I gave to Sambo. […] Amelia went away, perhaps to superintend the slicing of the pine-apple; […]

Fresh breezes sweep down the mountains, laden with the perfumes of the orange, the banana, pine-apple, and mountain apple trees […]

[…] (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) […]

He possessed a gorgeous cope of crimson silk and gold-thread damask, figured with a repeating pattern of golden pomegranates set in six-petalled formal blossoms, beyond which on either side was the pine-apple device wrought in seed-pearls[.]

Word Forms

• pine-apples

When Should You Use Pine-apple?

Use pine-apple when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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