pineapple Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun a tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated in the tropics
pineapple plant; Ananas comosus.
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noun large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated
ananas.
WordNet
Pine"ap`ple noun
Definitions
(Bot.) A tropical plant ( Ananassa sativa ); also, its fruit; -- so called from the resemblance of the latter, in shape and external appearance, to the cone of the pine tree. Its origin is unknown, though conjectured to be American.
