PINEAPPLE PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pineapple plant mean? 

• PINEAPPLE PLANT (noun)
  The noun PINEAPPLE PLANT has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: PINEAPPLE PLANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PINEAPPLE PLANT (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 plant" 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 plant"):

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

Holonyms ("pineapple plant" 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))

 Context examples 

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

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