Pineapple Definition

pīnăpəl
pineapples
noun
pineapples
A juicy, edible tropical fruit somewhat resembling a pine cone: it consists of the fleshy inflorescence of a collective fruit developed from a spike of flowers.
Webster's New World
The terrestrial plant (Ananas comosus) of the pineapple family on which it grows, having a short stem and spiny-edged, recurved leaves.
Webster's New World
A hand grenade shaped like a small pineapple.
Webster's New World

The ovoid fruit of the pineapple plant, which has very sweet white or yellow flesh, a tough, spiky shell and a tough, fibrous core.

Wiktionary
(slang) An Australian fifty dollar note.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
adjective
Designating a large family (Bromeliaceae, order Bromeliales) of tropical and subtropical, mostly epiphytic, monocotyledonous plants, including the Spanish moss.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Pineapple

Noun

Singular:
pineapple
Plural:
pineapples

Origin of Pineapple

  • From Middle English pinappel (“pinecone", literally “pine-apple/pine-fruit"), equivalent to pine +"Ž apple. Later applied to the fruit of the pineapple plant due to its resemblance to a pinecone. Compare the post-Classical Latin pomum pini, the Old French pume de pin, the Middle French and French pomme de pin, the Middle Dutch and Dutch pijnappel, the Middle Low German pinappel, the Old High German pÄ«napful, the Middle High German pÄ«naphel, and the early Modern German pinapfel "” all in the sense of “pine cone".

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English pinappel pine cone pine pine pine1 appel apple apple

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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