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pine⋅ap⋅ple

  [pahy-nap-uhl]
–noun
1. the edible, juicy, collective fruit of a tropical, bromeliaceous plant, Ananas comosus, that develops from a spike or head of flowers and is surmounted by a crown of leaves.
2. the plant itself, having a short stem and rigid, spiny-margined, recurved leaves.
3. Military Slang. a fragmentation hand grenade.
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Origin:
1350–1400 for earlier sense; 1655–65 for def. 1; ME pinappel pine cone; see pine 1 , apple
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pine·ap·ple   (pīn'āp'əl)   
n.  

    1. A tropical American plant (Ananas comosus) having large swordlike leaves and a large, fleshy, edible, multiple fruit with a terminal tuft of leaves.

    2. The fruit of this plant.

  2. Slang A hand grenade.


[Middle English pinappel, pine cone : pine, pine; see pine1 + appel, apple; see apple.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

pineapple 
1398, "pine cone," from pine (n.) + apple. The reference to the fruit of the tropical plant (from resemblance of shape) is first recorded 1664, and pine cone emerged 1695 to replace pineapple in its original sense. For "pine cone," O.E. also used pinhnyte "pine nut."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: pine·ap·ple
Pronunciation: 'pI-"nap-&l
Function: noun
1 : a tropical monocotyledonous plant (Ananas comosus ofthe family Bromeliaceae, the pineapple family) that has rigid spiny-margined recurved leaves and a short stalk with a dense oblong head of small abortive flowers
2 : the multiplefruit of the pineapple that consists of the succulent fleshy inflorescence and whose juice is the source of the proteolytic enzyme bromelain
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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