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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 1.6 [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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