Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pineapple"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pineapple \Pine"ap`ple\, n. (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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
pineapple
n 1: a tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible
fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely
cultivated in the tropics [syn: {pineapple plant}, {Ananas
comosus}]
2: large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of
stiff leaves; widely cultivated [syn: {ananas}]
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