pineapple

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The flesh of a pineapple fruit used as a food item.

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

2. 2
   noun

   large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves

3. 3
   noun

   a tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves

4. 4
   intj

   A common safeword.

5. 5
   noun

   A tropical plant, Ananas comosus, native to South America, having thirty or more long, spined and pointed leaves surrounding a thick stem.

6. 6
   noun

   The ovoid fruit of the pineapple plant, which has very sweet white or yellow flesh, a tough, spiky shell and a tough, fibrous core.

7. 7
   noun

   An Australian fifty dollar note.

8. 8
   noun

   A web burrfish (Chilomycterus antillarum, syn. Chilomycterus geometricus)

Etymology

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 Spa…