Definitions for Annona

Annona an·no·na

Spelling: [uh-noh-nuh]
IPA: /əˈnoʊ nə/

Annona is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in Annona (aannno).

Definitions for Annona

noun

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

Origin of Annona

New Latin American Spanish anona, anon, allegedly Arawak (Hispaniola)

Examples for Annona

Rationalii, persons charged with distribution of the annona, 114.

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

One bad result of the annona was that it encouraged a special and ruinous form of charitable munificence.

The sportula was a form of charity corresponding to the annona civica.

Then, in the main, natural social forces would come into play, and dependence on any form of annona civica would cease.

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.

On charitable relief, as we shall see, the annona has had a long-continued and fatal influence.

The almsgiving of the church by degrees took the place of annona and sportula, and it may have created pauperism.

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

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