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pineapple |
2 definitions found 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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