# pineapple
## English
### Alternative forms

* pine-apple (archaic)

### 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

* enPR: pīʹnăpəl, IPA: /ˈpaɪnæpəl/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈpaɪnəpəl/, /ˌpaɪnˈæpəl/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: pine‧app‧le

### Interjection

pineapple
* (chiefly BDSM) A common safeword.

### 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: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.

#### Synonyms

* pine (archaic except South Africa, Caribbean, Guyana, Australia)
* (plant): ananas, pineapple plant
* (fruit): ananas

#### Hypernyms

* fruit

#### Derived terms

* crazy pineapple
* fair suck of the pineapple
* false 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

* apple
* pine
* pine-apple

#### Descendants

* → Japanese: パイナップル
** → Yami: pinapo
* → Welsh: pinafal, afal pin
** → Cornish: pinaval
* → Ojibwe: zhingwaako-mishiimin (calque)