In English it’s called a pineapple —
but in Sanskrit, Portuguese, and most other languages,
it has another name. What?

Q: In English it’s called a pineapple — but in Sanskrit, Portuguese, and most other languages, it has another name. What?

Ananas (or a close variant).. The fruit is only 'pineapple' in English — because early European explorers thought it looked like a pinecone. In ~50 other languages it’s ananas.

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Ananas (or a close variant). — The fruit is only 'pineapple' in English — because early European explorers thought it looked like a pinecone. In ~50 other languages it’s ananas.