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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024pine•ap•ple /ˈpaɪˌnæpəl/USA pronunciation n. - Plant Biology[countable] a tropical plant having a short stem and rigid, spiny leaves.
- Plant Biologythe juicy, edible fruit of this plant: [countable]to buy two pineapples.[uncountable]a filling of pineapple.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024pine•ap•ple (pī′nap′əl),USA pronunciation n. - Plant Biologythe 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.
- Plant Biologythe plant itself, having a short stem and rigid, spiny-margined, recurved leaves.
- Militarya fragmentation hand grenade.
- 1350–1400 for earlier sense; 1655–65 for def. 1; Middle English pinappel pine cone; see pine1, apple
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: pineapple /ˈpaɪnˌæpəl/ n - a tropical American bromeliaceous plant, Ananas comosus, cultivated in the tropics for its large fleshy edible fruit
- the fruit of this plant, consisting of an inflorescence clustered around a fleshy axis and surmounted by a tuft of leaves
- slang a hand grenade
Etymology: 14th Century pinappel pine cone; C17: applied to the fruit because of its appearance |