pineapple
Pronunciation: /ˈpaɪnˌæpəl/
The English word “pineapple” has 10 meanings listed here.
noun
- 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.
- The flesh of a pineapple fruit used as a food item.
- 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).
- A pinecone; the cone of the fir.
- A hand grenade. (From the similarity to the shape of a pineapple fruit.)
- A hairstyle consisting of a ponytail worn on top of the head, imitating the leaves of a pineapple.
interjection
- A common safeword.
Etymology
From Middle English pinappel (“pinecone”, literally “pine-apple/pine-fruit”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīnapplu. Later applied to the fruit of the pineapple plant due to its resemblance to a pinecone. Compare the Middle Dutch and Dutch pijnappel (“pinecone", formerly also "pineapple”), Afrikaans pynappel (“pineapple”), Middle Low German pinappel, Old High German pīnapful, Middle High German…
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