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pineapple

pineapple

99 1.0
A large tropical fruit with sweet, juicy yellow flesh, a tough spiky skin, and stiff leaves on top
  • noun
  • /ˈpaɪnˌæpəl/
: 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

pina
vspineapple
10 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
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
Ananas comosus
vspineapple
  • Specialized
1 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
6 1.0

A sweet drink made from pineapples

pineapple plant
1 1.8

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

pineapple family
  • Specialized
1 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 weed
  • Specialized
8.4

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

How Ripe

overripe
6 3.0
ripe
65 1.0
pineapple
99 1.0
unripened
1 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.