Definition of "ana" []

• A collection of various materials that reflect the character of a person or place: definitive ana of the early American West. (noun)
• An item in such a collection. (noun)
• Both in the same quantity; of each. Used to refer to ingredients in prescriptions. (adverb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The fauna of Doñana is mostly Mediterranean with a few north African and northern European species."
• "And getting a telephone installed and working down here in the land of mañana is way different from the routine call to the local phone company, the prompt installation, the equally prompt billing back in the United States."
• "Mañana is a Mexican word that I struggle to understand."