dứa
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Definition
Noun: 1. Pineapple, ananas: A tropical plant (Ananas comosus) with a short stem, long, stiff, spiny leaves, and a large, sweet, edible fruit composed of many individual berries fused together around a central core. The fruit has a rough, segmented rind and a crown of leaves. 2. The fruit of this plant: The large, juicy, sweet-and-tart fruit, typically yellow when ripe, known for its distinctive fragrance and flavor.
Usage Examples
- As a noun (the plant):
- Vườn nhà bà tôi trồng rất nhiều dứa. (My grandmother's garden grows a lot of pineapple plants.)
- Lá dứa rất sắc, có thể làm đứt tay. (Pineapple leaves are very sharp and can cut your hand.)
- As a noun (the fruit):
- Tôi thích ăn dứa tươi hơn là dứa đóng hộp. (I prefer to eat fresh pineapple over canned pineapple.)
- Mùi thơm của dứa chín lan tỏa khắp nhà bếp. (The fragrance of the ripe pineapple filled the kitchen.)
- Nước ép dứa rất mát và bổ dưỡng. (Pineapple juice is very refreshing and nutritious.)
Advanced Usage
- "Thơm": In Southern Vietnam, the pineapple is commonly called "trái thơm" or simply "thơm", which literally means "fragrant fruit". This name highlights its characteristic sweet and strong aroma.
- Người miền Nam hay gọi dứa là trái thơm. (People in the South often call pineapple "trái thơm".)
- "Khóm": Another regional name for pineapple, also used in some parts of Southern Vietnam.
- Mứt khóm là đặc sản của một số tỉnh miền Tây. (Pineapple jam is a specialty of some Mekong Delta provinces.)
Variants and Related Words
- Cây dứa: Pineapple plant.
- Trái dứa / Quả dứa: Pineapple fruit.
- Lá dứa: Pandan leaf (). Important: This is a with fragrant leaves used in Southeast Asian cooking and desserts. The name is similar due to the leaf shape, but it is not related to the pineapple plant.
- Dứa dại: A type of wild, often inedible pandanus plant, not the edible pineapple.
- Dứa gai: Refers to the spiny, sharp leaves of the pineapple plant.
Synonyms
- Thơm (noun): Common synonym in Southern Vietnam.
- Khóm (noun): Common synonym in some Southern regions.
- Trái thơm (noun phrase): Literally "fragrant fruit".
- Ananas (noun): Scientific/borrowed term from French/Portuguese.
Related Phrases and Idioms
- Mắt dứa: Literally "pineapple eye". Refers to the rough, hexagonal patterns (the fruitlets) on the skin of a pineapple. Can be used metaphorically to describe a rough, bumpy texture.
- Da anh ấy sần sùi như mắt dứa. (His skin is rough like pineapple skin.)
- Ngọt như dứa: Literally "sweet as a pineapple". Used to describe something very sweet (often the taste).
- Giọng nói của cô ấy ngọt như dứa. (Her voice is as sweet as pineapple.)
noun
- Pineapple, ananas
- Pineapple plants are grown widely in the country. People in southern
- Vietnam usually call this tropical fruit as Trai Thom (fragrant fruit) which is literally precise quote for the fruit because anyone who first takes a bite of the fruit can surely feel the strong sweet smell come to his or her nostrils. The good smell that lingers longer than that of some other fruits, makes connoisseurs find it hard to forget. Pineapple is processed for different products such as canned pineapple, pineapple liquor and sweet preserved pineapple. Growers press this fruit to get the juice which is then mixed with the yoke of a hen's egg before being stirred thoroughly to become a muddy drink. The drink is said to be very sweet, butterfly and nutritious