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pineapple

pineapple

103 1.0
A large tropical fruit with sweet, juicy yellow flesh, a tough spiky skin, and stiff leaves on top
  • noun
  • /ˈpaɪnˌæpəl/
translation icon : piña
  • At the market, I bought a ripe pineapple that smelled sweet and fragrant.
  • pineapple slices
  • sugar and pineapple
  • includes pineapple

Get that stray bit of pineapple off my slice.

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Examples

  • Got any pineapple juice?

    The Ice Harvest (2005)

  • Do you know whether pineapple is native to the islands?

  • Yeah, this is fresh pineapple organic.

  • Walter is standing there, holding a pineapple in front of his face.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Now this one is just pineapple, no ham.

  • What is your stance on pineapple on pizza?

    The Drew Barrymore Show

  • One Saturday, I brought her a piece of toast and some pineapple juice, her favorite.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • I tear the bag open and put the pineapple in a blue bowl on the counter.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • Esteban picked up the pineapple cake and began to eat it.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • We would like one pie with pepperoni, pineapple and cheese crust.

Synonyms

ananas
vspineapple
  • UK
1 6.8

A large sweet tropical fruit with rough skin and spiky leaves

is the descriptive definition focusing on physical traits and the plant
pina
vspineapple
1 7.3

The tropical fruit with rough skin and sweet yellow flesh

is the standard general description used across contexts rather than a regional name
Ananas comosus
vspineapple
  • Specialized
6.5

A tropical plant that produces a large edible fruit with a crown of leaves

is the everyday descriptive term for the fruit and its plant

Idioms

fair suck of the pineapple
  • Australian
9.9

An even chance for everyone to take part

Compounds

pineapple juice
4 1.0

A sweet drink made from pineapples

pineapple family
  • Specialized
5.3

A group of tropical plants that includes the pineapple and other similar plants

pineapple guava
  • Australian
7.2

A small oval green fruit with sweet white flesh used to make jam

pineapple plant
1.8

A tropical plant that grows a large sweet fruit with a spiky top

pineapple weed
  • Specialized
8.4

A small wild plant with a pineapple smell that grows in cracks and has yellow flowers

How Ripe

overripe
7 3.0
ripe
63 1.0
pineapple
103 1.0
unripened
4.2

Surface Forms

pineapple singular
pineapples plural

Morphology

pineapple = pine + apple (opaque) = pine + apple

Although formed from 'pine' + 'apple', the modern meaning (a tropical fruit) cannot be derived from the component meanings and relies on historical metaphor and a generic sense of 'apple' for 'fruit'.

Etymology

The word pineapple comes from how early Europeans described the new tropical fruit: it looked like a pine cone and they used apple as a common word for 'fruit'. So the name stayed and now it means the sweet, spiky tropical fruit we eat today.