pineapple

• pine-apple (archaic)

From Middle English pinappel (“pinecone”, literally “pine-apple/pine-fruit”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīnapplu. Later applied to the fruit of the pineapple plant due to its resemblance to a pinecone. Compare the Middle Dutch and Dutch pijnappel (“pinecone", formerly also "pineapple”), and Middle Low German pinappel, Old High German pīnapful, Middle High German pīnaphel, and early Modern German pinapfel — all in the sense of “pine cone”. Compare also the post-Classical Latin pomum pini, the Old French pume de pin, the Middle French and French pomme de pin and Spanish piña. By surface analysis, pine +‎ apple.

• enPR: pīʹnăpəl, IPA^(key): /ˈpaɪnæpəl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpaɪnəpəl/, /ˌpaɪnˈæpəl/

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• Hyphenation: pine‧app‧le

pineapple

1. (chiefly BDSM) A common safeword.

pineapple (countable and uncountable, plural pineapples)

1. A tropical plant, Ananas comosus, native to South America, having thirty or more long, spined and pointed leaves surrounding a thick stem.
3. The ovoid fruit of the pineapple plant, which has very sweet white or yellow flesh, a tough, spiky shell and a tough, fibrous core.
4. (uncountable) The flesh of a pineapple fruit used as a food item.
   • 1909, Eva Greene Fuller, The Up-To-Date Sandwich Book: 400 Ways to Make a Sandwich, page 117:

     Spread lightly buttered white bread thinly with cream cheese; sprinkle with pineapple and press together, then cut the sandwiches in thin, slender strips.

5. (slang) An Australian fifty dollar note.
6. A web burrfish (Chilomycterus antillarum, syn. Chilomycterus geometricus)
7. A light yellow colour, like that of pineapple flesh (also called pineapple yellow).

   pineapple:  

8. (obsolete or dialectal) A pinecone; the cone of the fir.
9. (slang) A hand grenade. (From the similarity to the shape of a pineapple fruit.)

   Synonyms: grenade, hand grenade

10. A hairstyle consisting of a ponytail worn on top of the head, imitating the leaves of a pineapple.

• pine (archaic except South Africa, Caribbean, Guyana, Australia)
• (plant): ananas, pineapple plant
• (fruit): ananas

• fruit

• apple
• pine
• pine-apple

• → Cornish: pinaval (calque)
• → Japanese: パイナップル
  • → Yami: pinapo
• → Ojibwe: zhingwaako-mishiimin (calque)
• → Unami: kuweapëlìsh (calque)
• → Welsh: pinafal/afal pin (calque)

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