pine|ap|ple

pine|ap|ple
pine|ap|ple «PY NAP uhl», noun.
1. a large, juicy fruit that looks somewhat like a large pine cone and is good to eat. It is a seedless, multiple fruit developed from a conical spike of flowers and surmounted by a crown of small leaves.
2. the plant that it grows on. Pineapple is widely cultivated in tropical regions. It has a short stem and bears a dense cluster of small flowers, rising from a cluster of slender, stiff leaves which are edged with spines.
3. some other plant of the same family, such as the wild pineapple.
4. Slang. a hand grenade or bomb (so called from the crisscross pattern on some kinds).
╂[Middle English pīnappel pine cone]

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