pineapple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pīʹnăpəl
ipa: /ˈpaɪnæpəl/
ipa: /ˈpaɪnəpəl/
ipa: /ˌpaɪnˈæpəl/
Forms: form: pineapples
form: pine-apple
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 pīnaphel, and 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.
Sense "An Australian fifty dollar note": From the yellow colour of a $50 banknote in the first, second, and third series of Australian dollar notes. Compare with lobster for a $20 Australian banknote, and watermelon for a $100 Australian banknote.
Senses: glosses: A tropical plant, Ananas comosus, native to South America, having thirty or more long, spined and pointed leaves surrounding a thick stem.
glosses: The ovoid fruit of the pineapple plant, which has very sweet white or yellow flesh, a tough, spiky shell and a tough, fibrous core.
examples: text: Spread lightly buttered white bread thinly with cream cheese; sprinkle with pineapple and press together, then cut the sandwiches in thin, slender strips.
ref: 1909, Eva Greene Fuller, The Up-To-Date Sandwich Book: 400 Ways to Make a Sandwich, page 117:
glosses: The flesh of a pineapple fruit used as a food item.
glosses: An Australian fifty dollar note.
glosses: A web burrfish (Chilomycterus antillarum, syn. Chilomycterus geometricus)
glosses: A light yellow colour, like that of pineapple flesh (also called pineapple yellow).
glosses: A pinecone; the cone of the fir.
synonyms: grenade
hand grenade
glosses: A hand grenade. (From the similarity to the shape of a pineapple fruit.)
glosses: A hairstyle consisting of a ponytail worn on top of the head, imitating the leaves of a pineapple.
Synonyms: english: archaic except South Africa
translation: archaic except South Africa
word: pine
sense: plant
word: ananas
sense: plant
word: pineapple plant
sense: fruit
word: ananas
Hypernyms: fruit
Derived terms: word: crazy pineapple
word: fair suck of the pineapple
word: false pineapple
word: opal pineapple
word: pineappleade
word: pineapple bomb
word: pineapple bun
word: pineapple cake
word: pineapple chunks
word: pineapple cloth
word: pineappled
word: Pineapple Express
word: pineapple fiber
word: pineapple fibre
word: pineapple finial
english: Eucomis
translation: Eucomis
word: pineapple flower
word: pineapple grass
word: pineapple grenade
taxonomic: Acca sellowiana
word: pineapple guava
word: Pineapple Island
word: pineapple jelly
word: pineapple juice
word: pineapple kernel
word: pineapplelike
word: pineapple lily
word: pineapple melon
taxonomic: Mentha suaveolens
word: pineapple mint
word: pineapple opal
word: pineapple palm
word: pineapple plant
word: Pineapple Primary
word: pineapplerita
word: pineapple rum
taxonomic: Salvia elegans
word: pineapple sage
word: pineapple sea cucumber
word: pineapple seed
word: pineapple shawl
word: pineapple strawberry Fragaria × ananassa)
word: pineapple tart
word: pineapple test
word: pineappletini
word: pineapple tree
taxonomic: Nashia inaguensis
word: pineapple verbena
taxonomic: Matricaria discoidea
word: pineapple weed
word: pineapple wilt
word: pineapple wine
word: pineappley
word: pineberry
word: pine nut
word: queen pineapple
word: rough end of the pineapple
word: sea pineapple
word: twisted pineapple
Related terms: apple
pine
pine-apple
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