annona

[ uh-noh-nuh ]

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noun

any of various trees and shrubs of the genus Annona, native to tropical America, and grown for their edible fruits.

First recorded in 1760–70; from New Latin, from Central American Spanish anona, anon, allegedly from Taíno (Hispaniola) anon

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.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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