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pineapple
CEFRA2
/ˈpaɪnˌæpəl/
noun · interjection
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In plain English
- 01
noun
A large tropical fruit with rough skin and sweet yellow flesh.
- 02
noun
Extra detailThe flesh of a pineapple fruit used as a food item.
Examples
The fruit is similar to an orange in shape and to a pineapple in taste.
You can decorate the cocktail with a cherry or a pineapple.
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Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 2
- Citations
- 1
- Synonyms
- 5
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsThe ovoid fruit of the pineapple plant, which has very sweet white or yellow flesh, a tough, spiky shell and a tough, fibrous core.
A tropical plant, Ananas comosus, native to South America, having thirty or more long, spined and pointed leaves surrounding a thick stem.
interjection
Extra meaningA common safeword.
More examples
In contextSpread lightly buttered white bread thinly with cream cheese; sprinkle with pineapple and press together, then cut the sandwiches in thin, slender strips.
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Origin
noun
From Middle English pinappel (“pinecone”, literally “pine-apple/pine-fruit”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīnapplu. Later applied to the fruit of the pineapple plant due to its resemblance to a pinecone. Compare the Middle Dutch and Dutch pijnappel (“pinecone", formerly also "pineapple”), Afrikaans pynappel (“pineapple”), Middle Low German pinappel, Old High German pīnapful, Middle High German pīnaphel, and early Modern German pinapfel — all in the sense of “pine cone”. Compare also the post-Classical Latin pomum pini, the Old French pume de pin, the Middle French and French pomme de pin and Spanish piña. By surface analysis, pine + apple. Sense "An Australian fifty dollar note": From the yel...