pineapple
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See also: pine-apple
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English pinappel (“pinecone”, literally “pine-apple/pine-fruit”). Later applied to the fruit of the pineapple plant due to its resemblance to a pinecone. Compare the Middle Dutch and Dutch pijnappel, the Middle Low German pinappel, the Old High German pīnapful, the Middle High German pīnaphel, and the early Modern German pinapfel — all in the sense of “pine cone”. Compare also the post-Classical Latin pomum pini, the Old French pume de pin, the Middle French and French pomme de pin and Spanish piña. By surface analysis, pine + apple.
Pronunciation
Interjection
pineapple
Noun
pineapple (countable and uncountable, plural pineapples)
- A tropical plant, Ananas comosus, native to South America, having thirty or more long, spined and pointed leaves surrounding a thick stem.
- The ovoid fruit of the pineapple plant, which has very sweet white or yellow flesh, a tough, spiky shell and a tough, fibrous core.
- (uncountable) The flesh of a pineapple fruit used as a food item.
- 1909, Eva Greene Fuller, The Up-To-Date Sandwich Book: 400 Ways to Make a Sandwich, page 117:
- CREAM CHEESE AND PINEAPPLE SANDWICH: Chop the pineapple fine and drain. Spread lightly buttered white bread thinly with cream cheese; sprinkle with pineapple and press together, then cut the sandwiches in thin, slender strips.
- (slang) An Australian fifty dollar note.
- A web burrfish (Chilomycterus antillarum, syn. Chilomycterus geometricus)
- A light yellow colour, like that of pineapple flesh (also called pineapple yellow).
- pineapple:
- (obsolete or dialectal) A pinecone; the cone of the fir.
- (slang) A hand grenade. (From the similarity to the shape of a pineapple fruit.)
- Synonyms: grenade, hand grenade
- A hairstyle consisting of a ponytail worn on top of the head, imitating the leaves of a pineapple.
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Hypernyms
Derived terms
- crazy pineapple
- fair suck of the pineapple
- opal pineapple
- pineapple bomb
- pineapple bun
- pineapple cake
- pineapple chunks
- pineapple cloth
- Pineapple Express
- pineapple fiber, pineapple fibre
- pineapple finial
- pineapple flower (Eucomis)
- pineapple grass
- pineapple grenade
- pineapple guava (Acca sellowiana)
- Pineapple Island
- pineapple jelly
- pineapple juice
- pineapple kernel
- pineapple lily
- pineapple melon
- pineapple mint (Mentha suaveolens)
- pineapple opal
- pineapple palm
- pineapple plant
- Pineapple Primary
- pineapple rum
- pineapple sage (Salvia elegans)
- pineapple seed
- pineapple shawl
- pineapple strawberry Fragaria × ananassa)
- pineapple tart
- pineapple test
- pineapple tree
- pineapple verbena (Nashia inaguensis)
- pineapple weed (Matricaria discoidea)
- pineapple wilt
- pineapple wine
- queen pineapple
- rough end of the pineapple
- sea pineapple
- twisted pineapple
Related terms
Descendants
Translations
plant
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fruit
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slang: hand grenade
slang: hairstyle
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