[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) › c10.375 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.375 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.375 - **Language:** English ### [c10.375](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.375) 1535.—“There are in this iland of Spagnuolo certain thistles, each of which bears a \*Pigna\*, and this is one of the most beautiful fruits that I have seen. . . . It has all these qualities in combination, viz. beauty of aspect, fragrance of colour, and exquisite flavour. The Christians gave it the name it bears (\*Pigna\*) because it is, in a manner, like that. But the pine-apples of the Indies of which we are speaking are much more beautiful than the \*pigne\* \[i.e. pine-cones\] of Europe, and have nothing of that hardness which is seen in those of Castile, which are in fact nothing but wood,” &c.—\*Ramusio\*, iii. f. 135 v. - [Previous: c10.374](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.374) - [Next: c10.376](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.376) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.375](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.375) · Pramāṇa