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annona

/uh-noh-nuh/US // əˈnoʊ nə //

安纳,安那

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of various trees and shrubs of the genus Annona, native to tropical America, and grown for their edible fruits.

Examples

  • If he can not do this, he must feed and fatten 60 pigs with corn (de annona pascit et impinguat 60 porcos).

  • You have to prepare the Annona of the sacred City, and to feed the whole people as at one board.

  • Sugar Apple, annona squamosa, another genus of the polygynia order, polyandria class.

  • Early in its history the annona civica attracted many to Rome in the hope of living there without working.

  • But the annona civica was an endowed charity, affecting not a single family, but the whole population.