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pine·ap·ple
(pīn′ăp′əl)n.
1.
a. A tropical American plant (Ananas comosus) having large swordlike leaves and a large, fleshy, edible, multiple fruit with a terminal tuft of leaves.
b. The fruit of this plant.
2. Slang A hand grenade.
[Middle English pinappel, pine cone : pine, pine; see pine1 + appel, apple; see apple.]
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pineapple
(ˈpaɪnˌæpəl)n
1. (Plants) a tropical American bromeliaceous plant, Ananas comosus, cultivated in the tropics for its large fleshy edible fruit
2. (Plants) the fruit of this plant, consisting of an inflorescence clustered around a fleshy axis and surmounted by a tuft of leaves
3. (Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) military slang a hand grenade
[C14 pinappel pine cone; C17: applied to the fruit because of its appearance]
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pine•ap•ple
(ˈpaɪˌnæp əl)n.
1. the edible, juicy, collective fruit of a tropical bromeliad, 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.
3. a small hand grenade shaped like a pineapple.
[1655–65; earlier, a pine cone, Middle English pinappel]
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pineapple
- collective fruit - That which is formed from a mass of flowers, as the mulberry, pineapple, etc.
- Hawaiian pizza - A pizza topped with pineapple and ham or prosciutto.
- pineapple - Originally, pineapple was the word for pinecone, since the cone is the fruit of the pine and apple had the former general meaning "fruit"; pineapple is neither "pine" nor "apple," but is a very big berry and is also called "king pine" or "excellent fruit."
- multiple fruit, fruitlet - The pineapple is termed a multiple fruit because it forms from the individual ovaries of several flowers; each raised button on its surface is called a fruitlet.
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| Noun | 1. |  pineapple - a tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated in the tropicsananas, pineapple - large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests Ananas, genus Ananas - a genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples) |
| 2. |  pineapple - large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivatededible fruit - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh Ananas comosus, pineapple, pineapple plant - a tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated in the tropics |
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Translations
أناناسأَنَانَاس
ananas
ananas
آناناس
ananas
ananas
ananász
ananas
パイナップル
파인애플
ananasas
ananass
ananás
ananas
ananas
สับปะรด
quả dứa
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
pineapple
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
pineapple
(ˈpainӕpl) noun a type of large tropical fruit shaped like a large pine-cone, or the plant which produces it.
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pineapple
→ أَنَانَاس ananas ananas Ananas ανανάς piña ananas ananas ananas ananas パイナップル 파인애플 ananas ananas ananas abacaxi, ananás ананас ananas สับปะรด ananas quả dứa 菠萝Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
pineapple
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