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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”), Afrikaans pynappel (“pineapple”), 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.

Sense "An Australian fifty dollar note": From the yellow colour of a $50 banknote in the first, second, and third series of Australian dollar notes. Compare with lobster for a $20 Australian banknote, and watermelon for a $100 Australian banknote.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: pīʹnăpəl, IPA(key): /ˈpaɪnæpəl/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpaɪnəpəl/, /ˌpaɪnˈæpəl/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Hyphenation: pine‧app‧le

Interjection

pineapple

  1. (chiefly BDSM) A common safeword.

Noun

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.
  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.

Synonyms

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

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