pineapple

[ pahy-nap-uhl ]
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noun
  1. the edible, juicy, collective fruit of a tropical, bromeliaceous plant, Ananas comosus, that develops from a spike or head of flowers and is surmounted by a crown of leaves.

  2. the plant itself, having a short stem and rigid, spiny-margined, recurved leaves.

  1. Military Slang. a fragmentation hand grenade.

Origin of pineapple

1
1350–1400 for earlier sense; 1655–65 for def. 1; Middle English pinappel pine cone; see pine1, apple

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pineapple

/ (ˈpaɪnˌæpəl) /


noun
  1. a tropical American bromeliaceous plant, Ananas comosus, cultivated in the tropics for its large fleshy edible fruit

  2. the fruit of this plant, consisting of an inflorescence clustered around a fleshy axis and surmounted by a tuft of leaves

  1. military slang a hand grenade

Origin of pineapple

1
C14 pinappel pine cone; C17: applied to the fruit because of its appearance

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