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Americana

Americana

14 7.2
Objects and art that show United States culture, like quilts and vintage signs
  • noun
  • /əˌmɛrɪˈkɑːnə/
: Americana
  • The museum's exhibit featured various pieces of Americana, including vintage baseball cards and classic diner signs.
  • piece of Americana

So he's zooming in and out of these Norman Rockwell type photos of Americana of farm life.

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Examples

  • Now, right up here I've got some marvelous old things, real early Americana.

  • Collectors of Americana sought out Steven Hale or Rachel Goodson.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • And do you collect Americana?

  • Yeah, it was a regular slice of Americana.

  • That submarine ride is a piece of Americana.

  • An hour later, we were looking at a pile of Americana that nearly reached the ceiling.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • For this prime piece of antique Americana, I hear thirty!

    Fiction book (1997)
  • "I love rooms decorated with touches of Americana, or just her colors.

    Blog text (16)
  • So we have people coming over, we got brats and potato salad and all Americana today.

  • In Tokyo, you can find many examples of Americana, ranging from McDonald's to Disneyworld.

    Academic text (1998)

Compounds

Phytolacca americana
  • Specialized
1 9.9

A tall North American plant with white flowers whose young shoots people cook but whose berries and roots are poisonous

Martes americana
  • Specialized
1 9.9

A small wild animal like a weasel, native to North America with soft brown fur

Corylus americana
  • Specialized
1 9.9

A shrub from eastern North America that produces edible hazelnuts

Apios americana
  • Specialized
1 9.9

A North American vine that climbs and has purple-brown flowers and edible underground roots

Agave americana
  • Specialized
1 9.2

A large spiky plant that blooms once after many years and then dies

Antilocapra americana
  • Specialized
1 9.9

A fast animal with hooves like an antelope that lives on western North American plains and has forked horns

Morone americana
  • Specialized
1 9.9

A small silvery fish from eastern United States rivers called white perch that people eat and catch for sport

Heuchera americana
  • Specialized
1 9.9

A North American plant that grows in clumps with spotted leaves and small flowers on stems

Periplaneta americana
  • Specialized
1 9.7

A large reddish-brown cockroach from the southern United States now found worldwide

Tilia americana
  • Specialized
1 9.6

A large American tree with dark green leaves that gives shade

Brunfelsia americana
  • Specialized
9.9

A tropical bush with strong, sweet-smelling yellow-white flowers that open at night

Campanula americana
  • Specialized
9.6

A plant with long spikes of blue or white bell-shaped flowers that grows in eastern North America

Centaurea americana
  • Specialized
9.9

A plant that lives one year with purple flower heads and basket-like leaves below them

Certhia americana
  • Specialized
9.9

A small brown North American bird that climbs tree trunks to find insects

Cimicifuga americana
  • Specialized
9.9

A tall plant from the woods of eastern North America with spikes of white flowers

Anas americana
  • Specialized
9.9

A medium duck whose male has a white crown and a green patch by the eye

Aythya americana
  • Specialized
9.9

A diving duck from North America with a grey and black body and a reddish brown head

Fagus americana
  • Specialized
9.9

A North American tree with light green leaves and nuts you can eat

Fulica americana
  • Specialized
9.9

A medium-sized water bird in North America with dark feathers and a white bill

Lepiota americana
  • Specialized
9.9

A mushroom with a pale cap and a stem thicker at the base

9.9

A disease that causes sores on the skin and on the mouth or nose

9.9

A North American form of the twinflower that is a low creeping plant with two small bell-shaped flowers

Malacosoma americana
  • Specialized
9.9

A moth whose caterpillars live together in silk tents in trees

Mammea americana
  • Specialized
9.9

A tropical tree with sweet fruit used in jams and desserts

Genipa americana
  • Specialized
9.9

A tropical tree from the Caribbean and northern South America that has fruit the size of an orange

Grus americana
  • Specialized
9.9

A rare North American crane with white and black feathers and a loud trumpet call called the whooping crane

Mycteria americana
  • Specialized
9.9

A large stork with a long curved bill that wades in warm American wetlands

Prunus americana
  • Specialized
9.3

A wild plum tree from eastern and central North America that has red-orange fruit with yellow inside

Pyrola americana
  • Specialized
9.9

A small forest plant with thick leaves and clusters of white flowers

A small evergreen plant with round thick leaves and white flowers native to eastern North America

A large South American bird like an ostrich that runs fast, cannot fly, and has three toes

Parula americana
  • Specialized
9.9

A small North American bird with blue-grey feathers and a yellow throat and chest

Sorbus americana
  • Specialized
9.6

A small tree with divided leaves and clusters of bright red berries from eastern North America

Veronica americana
  • Specialized
9.6

A low spreading plant with dense light purple flowers that grows near streams in western North America and northeastern Asia

Surface Forms

Americana singular
Americanas plural

Morphology

Americana = America (transparent) = America + ana

The formation is a standard derivation meaning 'things related to America' and is directly inferable from 'America' plus the suffix '-ana'.

Etymology

Americana comes from American plus the ending -ana, which means 'things connected with' or 'about'. So Americana refers to objects and art that are connected with American life and culture.