Pineapple : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Pineapple	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Pineapple
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pineapple n a tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated in the tropics Synonym(s): pineapple, pineapple plant, Ananas comosus large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated Synonym(s): pineapple, ananas
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.