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English discoverers be naming fruit like (sopuli.xyz)
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[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

European Spanish calls it Piña, and Brazilian Portuguese calls it Abacaxi.

[–] migo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

Ananás & Abacaxi refer to different types of pineapple. In Portugal we use both. In Brasil, Abacaxi is used because it's the type they have and with time it came to mean all kinds of Ananás.