PINEAPPLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pineapple mean? 

• PINEAPPLE (noun)
  The noun PINEAPPLE has 2 senses:

1. a tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated in the tropics

2. large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated

  Familiarity information: PINEAPPLE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PINEAPPLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated in the tropics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Ananas comosus; pineapple; pineapple plant

Hypernyms ("pineapple" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Meronyms (parts of "pineapple"):

ananas; pineapple (large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated)

Holonyms ("pineapple" is a member of...):

Ananas; genus Ananas (a genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

ananas; pineapple

Hypernyms ("pineapple" is a kind of...):

edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

Holonyms ("pineapple" is a part of...):

Ananas comosus; pineapple; pineapple plant (a tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated in the tropics)

 Context examples 

A characteristic of a medicinal product, specifying that its most predominant agreeable savor detected by the unified sensation of taste and olfactory receptors resembles pineapple.

(Pineapple Flavor, NCI Thesaurus)

A proteolytic enzyme obtained from the pineapple plant that cleaves sulfhydryl groups.

(Bromelains, NCI Thesaurus)

An enzyme found in pineapples that breaks down other proteins, such as collagen and muscle fiber, and has anti-inflammatory properties.

(Bromelain, NCI Dictionary)

When I had none, I used to look at a venison shop in Fleet Street; or I have strolled, at such a time, as far as Covent Garden Market, and stared at the pineapples.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)