The pine-apple (the Brazilian ananas).
“Witness thou, best Anana ! thou the pride
Of vegetable life,”Thomson: Summer, 685, 686.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.