pineapple

pine-ap-ple · noun

imported

Definitions

noun

  1. 1.

    A large tropical fruit with tough, segmented skin, sweet yellow flesh, and a tuft of stiff leaves on top.

  2. 2.

    The plant that bears this fruit, native to South America.

  3. 3.

    (slang, dated) A hand grenade (from its appearance).

Forms

plural: pineapples

Related words

See also: fruit, mango, tropical

Etymology

From pine (referring to pine cones, which the fruit resembles) + apple (used generically for fruit in Middle English). The word replaced the earlier term "ananas," still used in most other languages.