[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886) › c10.365 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.365 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.365 - **Language:** English ### [c10.365](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.365) In Africa too, this royal fruit has spread, carrying the American name along with it. “The Mānānāzi† or pine-apple,” says Burton, “grows luxuriantly as far as 3 marches from the coast (of Zanzibar). It is never cultivated, nor have its qualities as a fibrous plant been discovered.” (J.R.G.S. xxix. 35). On the Ile Ste Marie, of Madagascar, it grew in the first half of the 17th century as manasse (Flacourt, 29). - [Previous: c10.364](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.364) - [Next: c10.366](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.366) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.365](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.365) · Pramāṇa